MOTH

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03-01-2011 - sEEN 5 nOS.

16-01-2011- sEEN 8 NOS.

COMMON MIME (Papilo clytia)

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Location : Palode, Thiruvananthapuram


07-01-2011

                   collected a Caterpillar from Persea macrantha plant

12-01-2011

                     Become pupa

27-01-2011

                      Emerged with deformity

                                                      Kingdom:    Animalia

                                                      Phylum:    Arthropoda

                                                      Class:    Insecta

                                                      Order:    Lepidoptera

PRAYING MANTIS EGG

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09-11-2010

                      A long leathery egg case was found in Aracaria cunnighamia plant. In the same plant three praying                            mantis were also seen. The egg may be of praying mantis


24-01-2011
                     Near the egg case a praying mantis was seen regularly

04-03-2011

                   Not yet emerged. So examined microscopically and found it is already emerged   egg case. 

                   In this long egg case two cavities were there inclined upward and a single door- like lid for these two                         openings. Young one emerging out by pushing the lid upward. The lid is constructed in such a way that                      no water can enter inside the case

Beetle

WASP -6

Location – Palode, Thiruvananthapuram

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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

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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

Moth-2

Location : Palode, Thiruvananthapuram

MY OBSERVATIONS

10-01-2011 – Collected two cocoon

17-01-2011 – One emerged in the night.

Inside the cocoon cover there is one hard brown pupa cover also.

04-03-2011- The second cocoon is not yet emerged. So dissected. 

Inside the cocoon a baby wasp was found dead. So the cocoon is parasited.