You're absolutely right, Nelson. I had 5-6 chomping down a small curry leaf plant in my tiny apartment garden. Then a few disappeared and I suspect a couple of mynahs that were snooping around. So I transfered the remaining 2 cats to large sprigs of curry leaves kept in a vase indoors. It seems to have worked so far with constant refreshing of food material with new curry leaf sprigs from my other garden. I hope I get to see a lovely Common Mormon (why do they call them Common?) in my home soon. Sunita
--- On Sat, 8/28/10, Nelson Rodrigues <[email protected]> wrote: From: Nelson Rodrigues <[email protected]> Subject: [ButterflyIndia] common mormon laying eggs To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, August 28, 2010, 4:31 AM if you see carefully in picture no 1 there is a freshly laid egg on leaf no 4 and a egg that is probably ready to hatch on leaf no 5. the host plant is the common karipatha , many people who have karipatha in the garden when the cats emerge from these eggs people throw out these so called worms not knowing they could turn out to be beautiful butterflies. so if you have a karipatha plant in your garden check it out for some nice surprises nelson rodrigues -- Enjoy
