Showing posts with label butterfly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label butterfly. Show all posts

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Blue Mormon


There was this time when I didn't know butterflies by their names.
And I used to name them the way I wanted.
Once, in the campus, I saw a beautiful big butterfly with a wing span of about 6 inches. It was black and its hind wings was a light shade of blue with dots.
I called it the Blue Back.
I searched and searched and searched the net for the real name of this butterfly but in vain.
I even started thinking that I discovered a new variety of butterfly ;-)
Then finally in some site I found that this was called the Blue Mormon and that it was not all that common. Here's the pic for you. One of my favourites!!

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

The first butterfly I saw in Bannerghatta


It was fluttering over a shrub as soon as we entered the park.
I called it the orange and black one.
Now I know it as the Striped Tiger or the Common tiger.
More details about this species in future blogs...