If everything up until this point was already a part of your existing butterfly knowledge, this fact may come as a curveball. However, if you think about it from the butterfly’s point of view, it isn’t that unusual. A butterfly’s daily activities consist of eating and mating, both...
Next up was a super exciting find for me. The butterfly is the melanistic form of theEastern Tiger Swallowtail(Papilio glaucus). This is a classic example of Batesian mimicry, when a harmless species mimics an unpalatable model. In this case, the model species is the toxic Pipevine Swallow...
Adult female moth of Orvasca subnotata.Courtesy of A. Kalaisekar. Family: Hesperiidae Rice skipper butterfly, Pelopidas mathias Fabricius, 1798 The species was described from a specimen collected from India. A 2005 reexamination of the type specimen seeks to shift the species to Borbo (Larsen,...
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