2024 2nd Butterfly Walk arranged at Vetal tekdi Kothrud Pune district on 08.09.2024

Celebrating Big Butterfly Month September 2024

2nd Butterfly Walk arranged at Vetal tekdi Kothrud Pune district on 08.09.2024
Timings: 8:30 am to 12:30 pm
Weather conditions: Partly cloudy
Wind 16 kph
Temperature: 23 to 25 degrees
Humidity : fluctuating

Members:
Pavan Damoor
Narendra Bhagwat
Dr. Jafar Palot (new member)
Dattatray Langi (new member)
Dev choudhary

Sharing list of butterflies observed

Family: Hesperidae (skipper)

1. Common Small Flat
2. Spotted small flat
3. Small Branded Swift
4. Common Banded Awl - larvae and chrylasis
5. Brown Awl
6. Dart sp
7. Grass Demon

Family: Lycaenidae

1. Common Pierrot
2. African Babul Blue
3. Gram blue
4. Common Guava blue
5. Shot silverline
6. Slate flash
7. Red Pierrot
8. Pale grass blue

Family: Nymphalidae

1. Lemon Pansy
2. Daniad eggfly
3. Great eggfly
4. Common Three Ring
5. Common five ring
6. Bushbrown sp
7. Blue tiger
8. Common crow
9. Common Palmfly
10. Common castor
11. Common leopard
12. Nawab sp
13. Glassy tiger
14. Common Baron
15. Angled castor

Family: Pieridae

1. Common grass yellow
2. Small grass yellow
3. Psyche
4. Common gull (mating pair)
5. Lemon emigrant
6. Common Albatross
7. Indian Jezebel
8. White orange tip
9. Plain orange tip

Family: Papillondae

1. Lime Swallowtail
2. Common Mormon
3. Common Rose
4. Tailed Jay

Overall a good day today with plenty of activity.
Abundance of eggfly, Bushbrown sp, gull , emigrant, WOT, POT seen in very good numbers.
Surprisingly there was no record of Common evening brown and Pioneer White today.

Sharing few pictures of 🦋🦋 clicked during the walk.

Happy Butterflying to all....

Posted on September 8, 2024 10:57 AM by pavandamoor