The Common Lime Butterfly gets its name because Citrus species are the food plants for its larvae. It has this habit of hovering over citrus trees or plants and laying eggs here and there. Lays only one egg on one leaf as wikipedia says. As Citrus plants have this specific aroma so may be it gets attracted to anything citurs it comes across. Nothing to do anything with chilly. Thanks for sharing. Regards Pankaj
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:52 PM, raghu ananth <[email protected]> wrote: > The Common Lime Butterfly, Papilio demoleus certainly lives up to its name – > it kept going to the lime fruit + green chilly tied to a thread (to ward off > the evil eye) that had been tied at the bottom of a car. > > Idunganji, Uttar Kannada dist. > > Oct 2010 > > Regards > > Raghu > > -- *********************************************** "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) Research Associate Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project Department of Habitat Ecology Wildlife Institute of India Post Box # 18 Dehradun - 248001, India
