A careful follow up and interest lead you to see what is not easily observable.. Nice to know that this task enabled you witness the great metamorphosis.. Thanks Col Bimal Ji for sharing your experience and nice images..
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Ushadi Micromini <microminipho...@gmail.com > wrote: > thank you, Bimal da > for the pictures > for taking time to tell us the story > and sending it in > yes indeed a life time story > usha di > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Bimal Sar kar <bimal....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear Friend, >> On 01-01-2015 I located few larvae of Red Base >> Jezebel on a branch of Santalum album.I followed those larvae from >> 01-01-2015 onward .On 06-01-2015 I observed a Black Hooded Oriole feeding >> on the larvae and shifted them on an earthen plate and kept it on the >> balcony. To my surprise I found that the plate was lying upside down on the >> table with the larvae in it.I suspected that the same Black Hooded Oriole >> must have done it.Fortunately the larvae were still there.I found the >> Oriole visiting the tree in the evening.I shifted the plate along with the >> larvae in side the room. I used to supply fresh leaves of Santalum album ( >> CHANDAN ) every day till 17 -01-2015 ( that is the day first pupa was >> formed ). The butterfly emerged when the pupa was 14 days old. As the >> larvae of this species stay together even when they are full grown and >> ready to pupate I could see some 19 pupa on the plate( total number of >> larvae was 21 ). I followed this activity till 01 Feb when the last >> butterfly emerged. Taken few hundred images of this fascinating activity. >> Attaching some 16 images of this story as a New Year gift. My New Year is >> made.I think it's a life time experience. >> With regards, >> Bimal >> > > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Regards, Dr. Nidhan Singh Assistant Professor Department of Botany I.B. (PG) College Panipat-132103 Haryana Ph.: 09416371227 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
