Thanks Vijay ji. After reading this mail, I located on internet a very nice small writeup with photo-illustration about the life cycle of lime butterfly on Ruta plant.
Promla To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:26:36 +0000 Subject: [ButterflyIndia] Re: Lime Butterfly egg on a plant - Help regarding host plant ID Hi Looks like Ruta graveolens plant to me. Lime butterfly is known to use this as host plant, I have personal observations in North Bangalore of the life cycle on Ruta plants. Regards, Vijay --- In [email protected], Sengupta Ashok <ashok...@...> wrote: > > Hi! > > I saw a lime fly laying a single egg on this plant. Is it by mistake or is > this plant also a host plant for Lime Butterfly. > > Please ID this garden plant. (I was told that this plant repels snakes....???) > > Regards, > > Ashok Sengupta > -- Enjoy
