Dear Geeta, There is only one leaf belong to Dioscorea that too only in the first picture. The main plant in the pictures is Diospyros melanoxylon leaves as Neil ji mentioned. One more interesting point I would like to mention here that recently a scientist in ATREE Bangalore fond out that leaves of Nothapodytes nimmoniana is been eaten by a
Dear Ushadi, That is their nature not only insects most of the animals do so. What do a domestic cow do? Who cleans its surroundings? are they concerned about the same? In forest/nature, animals move around and they don't concerned about the cleanliness of the surroundings, caused by them. But there is system that works on it, such as dung beetles on dungs of mammals and in no time the area gets cleaned. Fungus degrades the wastes or decaying/dead substances. Rain washes away the surroundings of insects and any disturbance of the plant (as what you see in the picture) would help to drop down all such kind of foreign materials. In nature there is a system (or several systems) that works well to keep up the momentum. It is we who don't work as per the rules of nature hence need to work on each and every thing that we do. Regards, Giby On Jul 30, 5:54 am, Geeta <rgeet...@gmail.com> wrote: > Looks like Dioscorea--possibly D. bulbifera. > > On Jul 30, 5:30 am, Ushadi micromini <microminipho...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > and in pic 1, what is the heart shaped leaf peering down at the top? > > interesting venatiions... > > seems to be a vine growing up on the tendu... > > Udsha di > > === > > > On Jul 29, 10:15 pm, Neil Soares <drneilsoa...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > Thought this might be interesting….. > > > > > > Photographed this Giant Jewel Beetle [a Sternocera sp. possibly > > > S.chrysis] at my farm last weekend gorging on Tendu [Diospyros > > > melanoxylon] leaves. After extracting the juices it would discard the > > > fibrous pellets. > > > Sending a few photographs. > > > With regards, > > > Neil Soares. > > > > Giant Jewel Beetle on Tendu 1.jpg > > > 552KViewDownload > > > > Giant Jewel Beetle on Tendu 2.jpg > > > 477KViewDownload > > > > Giant Jewel Beetle on Tendu 3.jpg > > > 480KViewDownload > > > > Giant Jewel Beetle on Tendu 4.jpg > > > 494KViewDownload > > > > Giant Jewel Beetle on Tendu 5.jpg > > > 495KViewDownload
