Very interesting great details .....Thanks Bimal sir On 4/17/19, Bimal Sar kar <bimal....@gmail.com> wrote: > I was observing some empty pupal case and some dried up pupa on a small > Citrus maxima tree for last two years. the tree was on the road side. to me > the pupal case and the dried pupa seemed to be of Common Mormon. I have > recorded life cycle of Common Mormon earlier and knew that the host for > that butterfly is Citrus species and Murraya koenigii ( CURRY LEAF TREE ). > This Citrus maxima ( Pummelo/Chakotra/ Batabi ) was on the way to my daily > movement. On 30-3-2019 , on closer observation of the leaves I found a > green grown up larva on one of the leaves. I thought it to be a larva of > Common Mormon. On 4-4-2019 I found the larva turned to a pupa. The shape of > the pupa was like that of a common Mormon. On 5-4-2019 I brought that pupa > to our house and hang it on the wall, so that I can observe the development > regularly. On the tree I found number of Pupa which were dry and had holes > on them. May be ants damaged those. > It is only in the morning of 16-4-2019 , I realizes that the butterfly > which will be released will be a Lime Butterfly ( not a Common Mormon ). > The release of the butterfly took place in front of me. What an experience > ! This is the first time I recorded birth of a Lime Butterfly. > Attaching few images of the event. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send an email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >
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