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

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