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Butterfly Laying Eggs
It is past noon, and this unidentified species of swallow-tail butterfly, with lime green coloration on her wings, after feeding and sex in the morning, is laying her eggs. She flutters continuously and vigorously from leaf to leaf, from tree to tree, laying her eggs one at a time on her choice leaf - as one can be seen above - and never once does her wings stop moving even while laying her egg. I am entirely baffled as to what she senses to "know" which is the "right" leaf. But she seems to have a few favourite ones and anticipating her return to one of these, I got this shot.
Identified: Tailed Jay, (Graphium agamemnon agamemnon)
Butterfly Laying Eggs
It is past noon, and this unidentified species of swallow-tail butterfly, with lime green coloration on her wings, after feeding and sex in the morning, is laying her eggs. She flutters continuously and vigorously from leaf to leaf, from tree to tree, laying her eggs one at a time on her choice leaf - as one can be seen above - and never once does her wings stop moving even while laying her egg. I am entirely baffled as to what she senses to "know" which is the "right" leaf. But she seems to have a few favourite ones and anticipating her return to one of these, I got this shot.
Identified: Tailed Jay, (Graphium agamemnon agamemnon)