Monday, May 2, 2011

COMMON INDIAN CROW BUTTERFLY- Euploea core


Location : Palode, Thiruvananthapuram

Kingdom:      Animalia
Phylum:         Arthropoda
Class:            Insecta
Order:            Lepidoptera
Family:          Nymphalidae
Subfamily:     Danainae
Genus:          Euploea
Species:       E. core

The butterfly, being protected by its inedibility, has a leisurely flight. It is often seen flying about shrubs and bushes in search of its host plants. It visits a large variety of flowering plant species.
The butterfly is distasteful due to chemicals from the latex of the food plants eaten in the caterpillar stage. The predator avoid this butterfly as the alkaloids in its body cause vomiting.

MY OBSERVATIONS

18-04-2011 – Collected a caterpillar


HOST PLANT :Hemidesmus indicua. "Naruneendi" in Malayalam

25-04-2011 – Become Pupa
                        Silver in colour


01-05-2011 – Emerged 





IT TAKES 6 DAYS TO BECOME ADULT FROM PUPA

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