If you are talking about the white scratches on that leaf where it is sitting, its not by Tailed Jay. Butterfly scratches made by their proboscis will be of different pattern.
Tailed Jays usually come and settle at the same or near by place several times. Kishen On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Chittaranjan Sengupta < [email protected]> wrote: > > > Date: 17/11/2010 > Time: 0955 AM > Place: Mumbai (Anushakti Nagar) > I found a peculier behaviour of a Tailed Jay (*Graphium Agamenon). *This > species which is usually very difficult to photograph for it is not seating > on any flower and picks necter while it is still in flight was found to seat > quietly one the leaf of a Bougainvilliea tree. It was a sunny day and > Bougainvilliea is not its food plant. The butterfly was not laying egg. It > was not getting disturbed while taking photograph from closerange. When I > came very close to it to see what is it doing it flew away and again came > back to seat on the same leaf. On closer look I found some sctarch marks on > the Bougainvilliea leaf (see attached photograph). I am not sure whether the > scratchs were created by the butterfly. > Is it getting some Alcaloid (like different Tigers get from *Heliotropicum > Indicum *etc) from Bougainvilliea leaf? > - Chittaranjan Sengupta > > > -- Enjoy
