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My Best Butterfly Moment 2017
Ganeswari Chandrasekaran
Its one fine day as usual we started our journey towards Ala-
gar hills in search of butterflies. In the mean time my friend
Kavi Bharathi and i noticed a butterfly suddenly with lot of
excitement i screamed its a COMMANDER but my co-fellows
(Preethi Selvaraj, Meena Valli) didn't notice that and to the
surprise they didn't believed us so that we started searching
it for more than 30 mins but sadly we couldn't find it then
we started moving from that place with heavy hearted unex-
pectedly a brightly coloured commander came and sat near
us for merely 10 secs :) Sorry for the poor quality it was
flashed during flight!
Sathya K Selvam
The best butterfly moment for me in 2017 was a plain tiger
butterfly laying eggs in a tropical milkweed plant, which i
brought from Kolli hills for their beautiful flowers. The plant
grown and gotten a little bunch of flower buds. At the same
time the eggs started hatching and the young caterpillars
started munching the flower buds. At first i was bit disap-
pointed but then some magical things were started happen-
ing. A small caterpillar moult into a larger one then pupation
finally eclosion of a plain tiger butterfly. It was an awesome
experience to observe their stages...now almost 4 batches
are successfully eclosed...waiting for the next batch and plan-
ning to bring some other host plants hope 2018 will bring
more...
Amol Mande
I have been to Kookal to Kudhiraiyur Dam trek in Kodaikanal
and after returning Pavendhan Sir told me about Nilgiri
Clouded Yellow which I might have missed due to its similari-
ty with other grass yellow when it is in flight. Next time when
I have been again in Kodaikanal for Butterfly & Bird Survey
couldn’t see it in the
two days. The second
day we were all at FD
guest house and every-
one was waiting for
the vehicle to go to FD
office for the compila-
tion of data. It was
drizzling lightly and
suddenly we have seen
Kumaresan
Chan-
drabose Ji & Rajesh
Rkm Ji were running
behind one yellow
butterfly to capture it and when someone told that its Nilgiri
Clouded Yellow 2-3 more people joined the marathon and
certainly I was one of them. Finally got some record shot. It
could have been awesome if someone had recorded all the
action behind the scenes which we missed to do.
Ramanasaran
Hari
Silver Royal !! The
pictures says the
rest of the caption
Darshan M. Trivedi
"Jezebel",
24-12-
2017, Coimbatore.
Seen many times but
today only able to
click it.
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