Dear Friends, Last Sunday, while I was watching the world go by from my window (now a days I can do only that) I was pleasantly surprised by a female Crimson Rose hovering around the window trellis where I have grown Aristolochia indica, but that day she did lay any egg, but kept on hovering. Next day in afternoon she was back and to my delight saw her curling her abdomen tip to lay a dark egg on the underside of the leaf. This way I saw her laying 7 to 9 eggs, or may be more. Looks like it takes around 7 days for the eggs to hatch so now I am waiting for my Christmas gift!! For several years I have attempted to get this Swallowtail lay eggs in my window garden so that I can work on the life history, but finally it worked.Cheers!Isaac
See my Butterfly Images:http://www.flickr.com/photos/26689...@n00/ --- On Thu, 23/12/10, avinash sant <[email protected]> wrote: From: avinash sant <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] christmas lantern To: [email protected], [email protected] Date: Thursday, 23 December, 2010, 10:46 AM Nice shot, Thanks for the wishes Nelson & wish you the same. Avinash --- On Wed, 12/22/10, Nelson Rodrigues <[email protected]> wrote: From: Nelson Rodrigues <[email protected]> Subject: [ButterflyIndia] christmas lantern To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, December 22, 2010, 9:57 PM When my neighbours little daughter saw this picture she thought it was a christmas lantern. but it happens to be the pupa of the common baron. let me also take this opportunity to wish all my friends at BI A merry christmas and a happy new year nelson rodrigues -- Enjoy
