The blue mormon butterfly, papilio polymnestor, on an ixora flower. This is the second largest butterfly in India, after the Southern Birdwing. In India, they are mostly endemic to south India. The blue mormons are frequenters to...
Quite often we have special visitors to our backyard. Just that we need to keep our eyes and ears open 😯 This is a fruit bat, the indian flying fox, pteropus giganteus, which must have strayed off...
Common mormon female, papilio polytes form stichius, just out of its pupa. You can see the pupa just below the butterfly, on the curry leaf plant murraya koenigii, which served as its host plant....
Roxy Mathew Koll is a Climate Scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology. He also dons the role of an amateur naturalist, writer, web designer, photographer, and publisher—based on demand.
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