ONCE MORE ! - BREAKFAST WITH BUTTERFLIES After the overwhelming response from Mumbaikars for the earlier programme held in October and demand to have this...
Dear Issac Kehimkar, Thank you for your valuable advice.My study on certain species is till continuing.some gap must be filled throuh observations.After...
Dear Sangeeta, Its look like a Malabar Spotted Flat.At present i haven't any reference book with me.But this flat more yellow spots than Malabr spotted flat? ...
Dear Friends, I am happy to mention that after the huge success of the first part of Breakfast with Butterflies, we are arranging the part 2 this Sunday. If...
hi firstly i wish to congratulate you for a wonderful picture ( though it has gone slightly to the side). I could be wrong, but after reading wynterblyth's...
hi jemson the pictures were wonderful. especially those of the Nymphalids. also i had never seen a Marbled skippers picture, i had only been reading about it....
hi jemson the pictures were wonderful. especially those of the Nymphalids. also i had never seen a Marbled skippers picture, i had only been reading about it....
Dear Friends Finally the result was cloth moth.But before that Harshad and myself both faced lot of problems and much frustration because of not getting...
Thanks Susanth & everybody else for the replies. Yes, what actually caused the confusion in the ID was the more number of yellow spots as Susanth has mentioned...
I had visited Wayanad during 15th to 21st November 2004.I visited Muthanga-Tholpetty(part of Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary),Thirunelli-Brahmagiri(Wayanad North...
Hi friends, The Moore’ace (Halpe moorei) is a not so uncommon skipper here at Trivandrum, Kerala. The caterpillar is found on bamboo, which is the preferred...
Dear friends and Colleagues, I am an italian Lepidopterist and for many time I am receiving the interesting messages distributed by this group. Now I decided...
Maurizio Bollino
m.bollino@...
Nov 4, 2004 3:27 am
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Hi harshad and pinakin , There might be many reasons for the adults without proper scales on their wings. Like - 1) pupa getting physically damaged ( Some of...
Kishen.Das@...
Nov 4, 2004 4:46 am
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see this link , http://www.resourceshimalaya.org/fauna/butterfliesnew.htm regards, kishen das...
Kishen.Das@...
Nov 4, 2004 6:40 am
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dear sir , Thanks for your mail. Can you give me the exact dates on which you observed the migration ? Also can you give me the contacts ( e-mail id or phone...
Kishen.Das@...
Nov 4, 2004 6:45 am
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Hi Kishen Das Thanks for information.I have checked your reason for not having blue scales.And I found it correct in our case.Both of us kept the pupae in ...
Dear Kishen, i have doubt your points.I reared blue tigers and dark blue tigers several time.I kept the pupa very safely without damages.All pupae i had golen...
Hi Harshad & Pinakin, Your pics. of the birth of the Blue Tiger were simply amazing! What a treat it was to view them. Thanks for sharing them with us. katie...
Hi Satya, I'm glad u like the pictures, and sure, you can borrow it for your reference. The skipper's picture was taken around noon time.If I had taken the ...
dear sir , I said if the golden spots goes off due to some reason then the adults will have less scales. In your case may be one of my other points might hold...
Kishen.Das@...
Nov 5, 2004 9:07 am
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Hai All, As promised here i am attached the life cycle of Dark Evening brown-Melanitis zitenius recently we (premkrishnan and me) observed ponmudi last month. ...
Dear Friends I was thinking that the problem of Blue Tiger scales may be a simpler one but it turned out to be a complecated one. From my observation, all the...
hello ! i can understand colours fading over a period of time, due to scales falling off. but this is really wierd. it was really disappointing to see the...
hi, i was going through some of my butterfly pictures yesterday, and what i had thought to be Forget-me-not (Catochrysops strabo) i photographed at dangs,...
hi all, the breakfast with butterflies yest. was lovely. I will put up a more detailed posting & pics at the weekend when I have more time.But a very special...
This is an old article from ATREE's newsletter----- ... Do trees, tigers and elephants help conserve butterflies? Protected Areas (PA) in the Western Ghats...
Kishen.Das@...
Nov 8, 2004 11:04 am
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dear all , If any of you have seen the following species , please let me know the place and the date. ... pieridae ... Striped Albatross Lesser Albatross ... ...
Kishen.Das@...
Nov 8, 2004 11:28 am
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DEAR KRUSHANMEGH, HI I AM A REGULAR BUTTERFLY WATCHER AND I LIVE IN SOUTH GUJARAT AND I VISIT DANG S REGLARLY FOR BUTTERFLY WATCHING AND ALSO PHOTOGRAPH THEM I...
sahil meg
sahil_912@...
Nov 10, 2004 2:45 am
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I had sent this message in the last week. Somehow, it lost somewhere. Sending again. Amogh Hi Group, Could you please help me with the identification of this...