Forget Me Not

I photographed this pair of "Forget me Not (Catochrysops strabo Fabricius)" yesterday near my office in Bangalore. Just wanted to share the photograph and confirm the identity.


ForgetMeNotMating
Originally uploaded by Vijay Barve.

Krushnamegh explained

Forget-me-not has the costal spot on the underside of the fore wing almost mid-way between the discal band and the cell-end spot. in Silver Forget-me-not, the spot is adjacent to the discal band. upper side of Forget-me-not is purplish, that of Silver Forget-me-not is light silvery-blue.

Now I need to take more pctures of te butterfly.

Danaid Eggfly Two Males

Mornig I saw a huge butterfly, looking like Crow. I guess it was a female of Great Eggfly. I have seen this butterfly around few weeks back.

Today I spent only 15 minutes in the empty plot.

I saw two Danaid Eggfly Males (Hypolimnas misippus Linnaeus) today.

I saw Emigrant (Catopsilia pomona Fabricius) laying eggs on Cassia species. I will get the plant identified soon.

Common Grass Yellow (Eurema hecabe Linnaeus) was laying eggs on a small herb. I got a picture of the egg.

Other butterflies recorded were:

• Tawny Coster (Acraea violae Fabricius)
• Plain Tiger (Danaus chrysippus Linnaeus)
• Blue Tiger (Tirumala limniace Cramer)
• Unidentified Blues
  

The moth which attacked Centella asiatica in our office (I mentioned on 9th November 2004) imerged today. I need to take pictures and need to identify that.

Danaid Eggfly 

Emigrants

At around 1:00pm I saw a Mormon () Butterfly flittering around a Citrus plant. I am not sure if it has laid eggs on it.

At around 2:00pm I went to the empty plot next to my office. It was clear sky and the weather was sunny and hot. Wind was moderate.

On a samll Cassia plant there were numarous eggs of Emigrant (Catopsilia pomona Fabricius). And there were few more butterflied flittering aroung. There were a few copurting pairs too. I tried taking some pictures, but could not get any good ones.

Other butterflies I observed were:

• Common Grass Yellow (Eurema hecabe Linnaeus)
• Common Cerulian ()

Balcony Butterfly Watching

Today at around 2:30pm I was just standing in the balcony of my home. There is somewhat empty land behind my house and I was just watching butterflies in that. Due to the distance from the butterflies some of them I could not identify clearly.

I saw few Common Grass Yellow (Eurema hecabe Linnaeus) and two unidentified Blues.

There was a Emigrant (Catopsilia pomona Fabricius) on feeding on lantana. The color of this butterfly was yellow. It was nearing the color of a Common Grass Yellow (Eurema hecabe Linnaeus).

I saw a two Crimson Rose() and a Common Rose() flying arounf Lantana bushes. I also notices two Blue Tigers (Dark ?) (Tirumala limniace Cramer) and a Common Indian Crow (Euploea core Crammer) flying somewhat East to West direction. But I just saw 3 of these in half an hour, so may not be migration.

Other butterflies observer were:

• Plain Tiger (Danaus chrysippus Linnaeus)
• Common Lime ()
• Common Gull / Pioneer - Could not distingwish from the distance