Urban Wildlife-Colours of autumn

I am opening this blog with a natural flower arrangement from my garden. Kanahs and roses seem to like autumn best.



The lime butterflies are common




So are the plain tigers.




The grass blue is fashionably judicious in the use of bright colours for that graceful effect.




Turn on your macro lens and whole new worlds open up, like this lady bug in mustard color with a beautiful pattern on her duppatta!

IndianWildlifeClub is a finalist in DELL-UTVi awards.

IndianWildlifeClub is a finalist in DELL-UTVi awards.

http://www.dellhero.com/India/news.asp?id=44

Indian Wildlife Club - Gurgaon, Haryana, an Online Community of Practice, has leveraged latest technologies and a fresh approach to spread the message of conservation and environment education. The portal enables users to share their knowledge through articles in e-zines, Blogs, discussion groups and documentaries, submit multi-media trip reports, and share their observations on interesting places/ideas, and also browse and place orders for photographs and calendars, from the online repository.

Moth on a shrivelled nest

The photograph above shows a moth resting on the shrivelled nest of an ashy prinia warbler. The leaves are of the creeper "flaming glory bower'.

I have just written a blog on the caterpillar I found on the leaves of the elephant foot yam plant.

Can some one identify whether the moth has metamorphosed from the caterpillar shown? Or are they from different species?