http://thebutterflydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/quote-owholmes-sr-entomology/ The natural travails of an amateur naturalist in Hindostan Sun, 26 May 2013 02:49:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thebutterflydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/quote-owholmes-sr-entomology/#comment-269 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:37:20 +0000 http://thebutterflydiaries.wordpress.com/?p=712#comment-269 Ya, lots to keep learning!

]]> http://thebutterflydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/quote-owholmes-sr-entomology/#comment-265 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:24:54 +0000 http://thebutterflydiaries.wordpress.com/?p=712#comment-265 The yellows are Grass Yellows (Eurema spp). The gree-white ones are Emigrants (Catopsilia spp). Both are Pieridae, a family of sun-loving butterflies commonly called as the Whites and Yellows.

]]> http://thebutterflydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/quote-owholmes-sr-entomology/#comment-264 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:07:09 +0000 http://thebutterflydiaries.wordpress.com/?p=712#comment-264 Yes, poor butterflies. I have something evil to butterflies at one time. But no more, I just look as they fly past. There is one is a greenish – ghia/doodhi colour that I like. Apart from the more common yellow one. Loads of them about at this time of the year.

]]> http://thebutterflydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/quote-owholmes-sr-entomology/#comment-263 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:02:31 +0000 http://thebutterflydiaries.wordpress.com/?p=712#comment-263 Hmm, so I have been ‘evil’…a valid point of view as far as the butterflies and other insects were concerned.

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