Thanks Raghu ji for your detailed post
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:15 AM, raghu ananth <[email protected]> wrote: > *Thulasi (Holy Basil) plant home to dragonflies* > * > * > *Krishnarajanagar, Mysore* > *13 Jun 2009* > * > * > * > * > */** > At home, in the day time a few black and white dragonflies (granite ghost - > Bradinopyga geminata), sit well camouflaged pressed themselves on the > compound walls, or near the water tanks or even near the washing stone. ** > ** > Usually, I see them chasing other similar dragonflies who come close as if > threatening their territory. Unlike other dragonflies, the dragonflies I > refer to are highly alert and are very difficult to approach and photograph. > Initially, I thought they might rest on the same compound walls in the > night. But that was not so. Many moons later to my surprise, late one > evening when my mom was pouring vegetable waste water on the thulasi plant > that I noticed these dragonflies arriving here and quickly perching > themselves (in a slanting position and holding the twigs with their legs) > on the dry thulasi twigs. The discovery startled me no end. Also, I must > say that whenever I follow my mom around on one of her chores, I came across > some interesting revelations. She seems to be a talisman of sorts!**** > That same night around 7.30 pm, there were at least a dozen of them resting > on the dry twigs of the thulasi plants. Probably, they had also arrived from > nearby places.**** > Early morning at 6.15 am, I noticed that none of them were on the thulasi > plant but that they had resumed position on the compound wall. **** > On the second day, around dusk all of them were again found on the thulasi > plant. Two days later, their numbers declined to seven and then after five > days, only four of them remained. **** > Probably, they had taken up residence on some other plant or succumbed to > predation.**** > > */ > > > Regards > Raghu > >
