Katapadi III - Life in the undergrowth

Butterfly - Papilio Polytes Romulus female

Also called Common Mormon. It mimics the Crimson Rose. An interesting read about the mimicry of this butterfly can be found here .

In addition to all the birds, I was surprised by the varieties of butterflies that visited our back yard. Sadly most were extremely restless and hardly sat.


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A group of shiny blue and red butterflies always fluttered at tree top level and never came lower than the high branches. A large black and yellow bird wing also wandered around, never sat anywhere.

Also seen was a large black butterfly with bluish tinge on the upper side of its wings. I've also seen it near Indranagar park.

The cooperative ones, that did sit still, have my gratitude.

ButterFly - Chocolate Pansy

ButterFly - Common Snow flat

Found this little spirited guy while waiting for some bablers to settle down. There were 2 of them. Only this guy was bold enough to pose. No idea of the species.

We also visited some rice fields at a neighbour's house and there I saw a few dragonflies, by the river side.


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ButterFly - Common Jezebel

I have a habit of looking into any passing well. And I've noticed that most wells I've peeped into usually has a resident tortoise-like creature. Any help in id-ing this would be greatly appreciated.