Sunday, December 31, 2017

Butterly experience watching butterfly!

Butterfly larvae are actually what we call caterpillars. Caterpillars in this stage all they do is eat. When the egg hatches, the caterpillar will start his work and eat the leaf they were born onto. Here I have taken some pictures in stage by stage.

As per my observation in garden, Butterflies get attracted to lemon plants or curry leaves to hatch their eggs.


Here it started growing in short period by consuming leaves, my lemon plant in pot almost become naked.


Here is the clear shots of fully grown caterpillar on curry leaf plant.


Here it's almost changed.


After couple of days, it starts hanging by releasing thin silky thread stuck to support.


Here one more taken from Aloevera plant. 


Here is the new avatar.



Wow! what a transformation.

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Spider Surprise !

One day as a new visitor to my garden, came the spider...!

As usual I left without disturbing it since it was hanging above. I kept watching it on every day garden schedule, one early morning, I saw that it lost two legs, don't know how it happened.


I couldn't help it, left it as it is for its own survival. Still I kept watching it everyday.
After couple of days, to my surprise new pair of legs started re-growing, I have never seen or heard about this before except regrowth of tail for lizards.



On an other day, I saw this creature keeping it's food stored in the web surrounding of all directions, when I started taking snaps, it started rolling it back and ate some of them.


Quite interesting observation for me, provided by nature.