A kind of Shield bug Beautiful Picture well captured !@ RegardsRaghu
--- On Thu, 31/3/11, Mahadeswara <[email protected]> wrote: From: Mahadeswara <[email protected]> Subject: [efloraofindia:66055] Re: Insect with eggs To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> Cc: "Alok Goyal" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, 31 March, 2011, 4:03 PM Wonderful photograph and info. On Mar 31, 2:50 pm, Alok Goyal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hallo all > sending a photograph clicked on 30/03/2011 from Chandigarh. the insect is > laying the eggs on the fresh inflorescence of *Schleichera oleosa (*the > Kusum tree). it was in the afternoon around 3:30 pm and the temperature was > 15 degree celcius minimum. > > got interested in this picture coz it may be that the larvae which will > emerge out would feed on the mature flowers or may be fruits of the tree. so > in a way this tree with not so much of thick canopy even in its full foliage > season is source of shelter or food for some other creatures.... > > Alok > > Picture Eggs pic.jpg > 400KViewDownload
