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
IT TAKES 6 DAYS TO BECOME ADULT FROM PUPA
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