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Celebrating Big Butterfly Month India, September 2022.

Butterfly observations 04.09.2022 Sinhagad Valley, Pune, Maharashtra..

Members
Pavan Damoor
Aditya kshirsagar

Timing: 7 am to 10 pm

List of butterflies observed during the walk

Family: Hesperidae
Malabar Spotted Flat (1 ) Roosting
Blank Swift (1 ) yet to id - Roosting
Vindhyan Bob (1) - Basking

Family: Lycaenidae
NIL (No blues were observed)

Family: Riodinidae
Nil

Family: Nymphalidae

Plain tiger (3 ) Basking
Blue tiger (1) in flight
Glassy tiger (2) basking/ in flight
Common Crow (2 to 3) nectaring/ in flight
Rustic (1) in flight
Common leopard (2) in flight
Chocolate Pansy (1) basking

Family: Pieridae

Common grass yellow (10 to 12) roosting & Larvae around 15 to 20
Small grass yellow (1) roosting
Common Emigrant (in flight)
Common wanderer female (1) basking
Common Gull (1) basking
Pioneer (1) basking
Common Jezebel in flight

Family: Papiolionadae
NIL

Butterflies observed from 9 am to 9:30 am (1/2 hour Butterfly Count)

Common grass Yellow (10 nos)
Blank Swift (1)
Skipper in flight (1)
Glassy tiger (1)
Common crow (2)
Chocolate Pansy (1)
Pioneer (1)
Plain Tiger (2)
Common Emigrant (1)
Blue Tiger (1)
Common leopard (2)

It has rained the previous night so we decided to go for a quick butterfly observation on Sunday 04.09.
Early morning as we left home it was cloudy, but later on the Sunrise happened around 7:30 am.

Overall the butterfly activity was very low today with only 16 to 17 species that were observed. Surprisingly not a single butterfly was observed from the Lycaenidae family.
There was abundance of Common grass Yellow's and got to see plenty of Larvae's in different stages.

We also performed a half an hour butterfly count from 9 to 9:30 am and observed around 22 in numbers.

The photos have been uploaded on inaturalist.org site.

Happy Butterflying to all..

Celebrating Big butterfly Month India September 2022.

Saturday night I just looked over the sky and it was clear so took a quick decision of visiting Tamhini the very next day. I woke up early morning around 5 am and left for Chandani chowk to catch a red bus which goes to my beautiful and favourite butterfly destination " Tamhini. "

It was a foggy morning but the sunrise happened around 7:30 am. Around 8:30 pm I got down from the bus which I had boarded from C chowk. the sunshine was too bright so thought in mind that today's activity must have already started and yes I was right.

My first sighting started from the female common Mormon from Stichus form and was surprised to see the beauty in their habitat flying from one flower to another nectaring. The monsoon flowers are in full bloom currently which looks like an pink violet carpet spread allover. It's an treat for our eyes to get an beautiful view like this which will be remembered forever.

My observations started from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. Had to packup early as it had started raining heavily. By 1 pm had my lunch in the forest itself and walked down to the village bus stand to catch a bus back to Pune. On the way it was pouring heavily and as I reached c chowk

Butterfly observations dt 11.09.2022 Tamhini Pune

Time: 8:30 am to 12:30 pm

Member: Pavan Damoor

List of species observed

Skippers - 8 species
Brown awl
Branded Swifts
Rice Swift
Water Snow flat
Grass dart
Chestnut angle
Grass demon
Blank Swift

Blues - 7 species
Transparent 6line blue
Common Silverline
Long banded Silverline
Angled Pierrot
Indian Sunbeam female
Dark Cerulean
Tiny grass blue

Metal marks - 1 sp
Double banded Judy

Brush footed - 20 species
Lemon Pansy
Chocolate Pansy
Grey Pansy
Rustic
Common leopard
Common crow
Blue tiger
Glassy tiger
Striped tiger
Plain tiger
Baron
Common Castor
Angled castor
Tawny coster
Danaid eggfly
Great eggfly
Common fivering
Bush brown sp
Common sailer
Common evening brown

White & yellows - 8 sp
Common Emigrant
Mottled emigrant
Indian wanderer in flight
Pioneer
Common gull
Common grass yellow
Spotless grass yellow
Small grass yellow
Albatross flight

Swallowtails - 6 species
Common Mormon
Blue Mormon
Tailed Jay
Lime
Red Helen
Blue bottle in flight

Total 50 species observed.

Also got common leopard egg laying & one larvae.
Angled Pierrot larvae
Egg laying of common crow
Courtship display of common Mormon & Glassy tiger.

Will post the photos slowly 😀

Happy Butterflying to all 🦋🦋