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Beauty of the plain tiger!!
Danaus chrysippus, also known as the plain tiger, African queen, or African monarch, is a medium-sized butterfly widespread in Asia, Australia and Africa!
Painted jezebel having a good breakfast!!
And now the most interesting part of All🙏
Etymology
From Jezebel, the Phoenician princess and Queen of Ancient Israel who appears in the Old Testament (1 Kings). She incited heresy and lured the Jews away from their God and back to idols. Before her death, knowing that she was soon to be slain, she took the time to fix her hair and paint her face.
From the 16th century, some people believed that makeup was worn only by immoral women; hence the wearing of makeup implied immorality.
source: (en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/painted_Jezebel)
Delias eucharis, the common Jezebel, is a medium-sized pierid butterfly found in many areas of south and southeast Asia.
The common Jezebel are nomadic in behaviour and are found in a variety of environment including, but not limited to, temperate hill forests, tropical rainforests, dry open woodlands, and beach hinterlands. They are generally found all over India, except in the desert tracts, and up to an altitude of 7,000 feet (2,100 m) in the hills. The butterfly may be found wherever there are trees, even in towns and cities, flying high among the trees and visiting flowers.
It is also commonly seen in gardens. The females can be seen flying amongst the trees in search of its food plants, while the males are more frequently observed visiting flowers for nectar. It rests with its wings closed exhibiting the brilliantly coloured underside.
The Jezebel often flies high up in the canopy and usually comes lower down only to feed on nectar in flowers. Due to this habit apparently, it has evolved a dull upperside and a brilliant underside so that birds below it recognise it immediately while in flight and at rest.
Blue tiger butterfly (Tirumala limniace)
The males have a brush at tip of the abdomen. They protrude it out and stroke the pouches of specialized scent scales on the hind wings to scatter the scent that attract the females. The eggs are laid on the tender buds or flower buds or the tips of the leaves.
A mottled emigrant butterfly on the Jamaican spike flowers. The texture on it's wings is remarkable, and the direction of light here enhances it just right.
Lycaena phlaeas, the small copper, American copper, or common copper, is a butterfly of the Lycaenids or gossamer-winged butterfly family. According to Guppy and Shepard (2001), its specific name phlaeas is said to be derived either from the Greek phlego, "to burn up" or from the Latin floreo, "to flourish".
Yellow sulfur butterfly on hibiscus flower
Upon the hibiscus, bright and bold,
A visitor of wings unfolds,
Yellow sulfur butterfly, so fair,
In dance with petals, without a care.
Amidst the blooms, a fleeting stay,
A moment's beauty, before it's away,
But in that instant, joy is found,
In nature's splendor, all around.
So let us cherish this tender sight,
As butterfly and flower unite,
A dance of life, a wondrous show,
In garden's embrace, they softly glow.
A common jay butterfly on Leea Indica flowers. As the name suggests, these butterflies are so restless that it's a challenge to photograph them.
Not a perfect focus though..
The thorax is black with white spots and the abdomen is a tawny brown colour. Males are usually smaller than females and may be more brightly coloured. The wingspan is about 7-8 cm. Like Monarch butterflies, Plain Tigers are in the genus Danaus also know as the milkweed butterflies.
A grey pansy butterfly on Leea indica flowers. I am always looking for backlit shots of butterflies, and getting this one facing me at the same time was a much welcome bonus.
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seudozizeeria maha, the pale grass blue, is a small butterfly found in South Asia that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. The species was first described by Vincenz Kollar in 1844.
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Danaus chrysippus chrysippus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Oriental Plain Tiger
"Conservation and Special status"
This species is not legally protected in India under any schedules of WildLife (Protection) Act, 1972
A Common grass yellow butterfly (Eurema hecabe) nectaring on the Leea indica flower. These are small butterflies, and generally found in open grassland or scrubland, hence the name.
Although it is one of the most common butterflies found in the Indian subcontinent, it is a very quick flier and very diificult to be found sitting in one place for sufficient time to photograph.
This one, however was probably hungry and didn't mind me getting close and clicking a couple of shots while it was drinking nectar.