On both my visit to Bannerghatta, and to Turahalli, Galibore, and Ramnagara, I noticed a wide variety of butterflies flitting along in their various colours. Of course, the time of day (mid-morning) was not ideal to photograph them, as that is their nectar-gathering time and so they were most restless, and would hardly settle for more than a second or two anywhere.

So of course it was the butterflies’ fault that I got mediocre pictures….having allocated the blame correctly, here they are:

The

BLUE PANSY

GLASSY TIGER wet-season form of the COMMON CERULEAN BARONET the PEACOCK PANSY NIGGER or SMOOTH-EYED BUSH BROWN COMMON SAILER YELLOW PANSY COMMON GRASS YELLOW COMMON ROSE actually, this could also be a COMMON MORMON, see below: COMMON LEOPARD COMMON PIERROT COMMON MORMON (see the people who helped me out with the id's, right at the end) PSYCHE TAWNY COSTER the LIME mud-puddling: PLAIN TIGER I enjoyed seeing the way this COMMON FIVERING was camouflaged: The : CRIMSON ROSE in Shreeram's words, "looks like old-age has taken off the sheen"...alas, alas, those words could apply very well to ME!! :) the RICE SWIFT

Let me end with this beautiful

BLUE-WINGED WASP

This post is dedicated to

Karthik

who is an authority on butterflies!

Update:

My NTP friends, Vikram Hiresavi, M V Shreeram, ,Vineet, and Uma have all, as usual, taken the trouble to help me out with the ids. :) Thank you!