Friday, September 16, 2011

WASP -6


Location – Palode, Thiruvananthapuram

MY OBSERVATIONS


08-9-11 – Collected some eggs in a leaf
                Eggs are only 2 mm in diameter
                                                        Enlarged view

14-9-11 – Emerged. There is a lid in the egg. The young one pushed opened it and 
               come out



Very tiny fly. Having 3mm in length.
                   When enlarged it looks like a wasp

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Giant Red Eye Butterfly (Gangara thyrsis thyrsis)


Location : Thuckalai, Tamilnadu

23-01-2011 – Caterpillar from coconut tree leaf. Grayish white in colour covered with white powdery hairs. Edges of the leaf is pasted together and stay inside it. For a little disturbance the pupa shivering with sounds (the sound is due to the hitting of the pupa against the leaf)
 The leaf is folded in such a way that if rain comes no water can enter inside the cover


Host Plant : Coconut tree (Cocos nucifera)

24-01-2011 – The leaf roll opened.



27-01-2011 – Emerged out
It is “Giant Red Eye” (Gangara thyrsis thyrsis)




Kingdom:      Animalia
Phylum:          Arthropoda
Class:            Insecta
Order:            Lepidoptera
Family:           Hesperiidae
Genus:           Gangara
Species:        G. thyrsis
Also check the blog White Caterpillar from Kollam

MOTH-3


Location : Palode, Thiruvananthapuram

MY OBSERVATIONS

13-1-2011 – collected a caterpillar. There are number of different aged caterpillars in the plant.


Host Plant :  Breynia patens (Roxb.) Rolfe
Common Name: Cup & Saucer, Peruniuri (Malayalam),    The plant grows as a shrub with spreading branches


17-1-2011 - Colour and shape of the caterpillar changed. Edges of the leaf is pasted together. So I think is going to pupate.


18-1-2011 – Become a complete pupa



28-1-2011 – Emerged out



IT TAKES 10 DAYS TO BECOME ADULT FROM PUPA



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