hills

Uttarakhand·hills · industry

Himalaya yellow coster caterpillar larvae on favourite food plant in Landour, India. Yellow Coster (Acraea issoria) is a beautiful leathery winged butterfly with a weak but persistent flight, found in countries in the oriental region like I…

Uttarakhand·hills

Common Gull butterflies mud puddling in Landour Do write in if you agree! Are they Common Gull butterflies? This butterfly is common in India (including the Andaman and Nicobar islands), Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and My…

hills · flowers

See different Himalayan butterflies such as a Sorrel Sapphire (Heliophorus sena), Blue Pansy (Junonia orithiya), Pale Grass Blue or Tiny Grass Blue (Pseudozizeeria maha or Zizula hylax) and a Great Blackvein (Aporia agathon), mostly on Hors…

flowers · hills

A Cabbage White butterfly offers itself to a receptive mate on a spring-time afternoon in the high Himalaya, close to the tree-line. It protrudes its abdomen outwards in an attempt to mate.

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

Last week was the end of spring and summer was well under way, at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, in this magical slow motion High Definition footage.

Arunachal Pradesh·hills · village

Large Cabbage White or Grass Yellow? Please help us identify the butterflies featured in this beautiful little stream-side swarm in Ziro valley, Arunachal Pradesh, India.

Arunachal Pradesh·hills · farmland

Chocolate albatross butterflies. Please help us identify the butterflies featured in this beautiful little stream-side swarm in Ziro valley, Arunachal Pradesh, India.

Arunachal Pradesh·hills · river

Chocolate albatross butterflies? Please help us identify the butterflies featured in this beautiful little stream-side swarm in Ziro valley, Arunachal Pradesh, India. They belong to the Peridae family.

Arunachal Pradesh·hills · farmland

Are these Chocolate albatross butterflies? Very rare and spectacular species of butterflies can be spotted in the even more spectacular Ziro valley.

hills · flowers

Spring-time brings with it a profusion of Himalayan butterflies and flowers. These Great Blackvein butterflies flit around the profuse blossoms on this Aesculus indica tree in Uttarakhand.

Meghalaya·wildlife · hills

The chestnut tiger, common nawab, red helen, cruiser, common mime, plain tiger, large silverstripe, stripped blue crow, spotted sawtooth, the common grass yellow, painted lady, checkered white and other butterflies on display at Wankhar Mem…

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Wanderer butterfly sucking nectar from Aesculus flower in Landour. In May each year, thousands of Great Blackvein butterflies (Aporia agathon) descend on the blooms of the Himalayan Horse Chestnut (Aesculus indica) at the Wilderness Orchard…

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Great Blackvein butterflies sucking nectar from Aesculus flower in Landour. Spring-time brings with it a profusion of Himalayan butterflies and flowers.

flowers · hills

Great Blackvein butterflies feeding on flowering Aesculus or Horse Chestnut nectar. Spring-time brings with it a profusion of Himalayan butterflies and flowers.

flowers · hills

Great Blackvein butterfly feeding on flowering Aesculus or Horse Chestnut nectar. The Wanderer butterflies were to be seen in great profusion on the flowering Horse Chestnut (Aesculus indica) trees and everything was warm, happy and well in…

hills

A group of blue crow butterflies (Euploea mulciber) caught in slow-motion in the West Jaintia hills in Meghalaya.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

In May each year, thousands of Great Blackvein butterflies (Aporia agathon) descend on the blooms of the Himalayan Horse Chestnut (Aesculus indica) at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens at Jabbarkhet, in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.

hills · forest

The Oakleaf butterfly is sheer magic! The closed wings look like a staticdry brown oak leaf but when they open, it is a different world of colour and magic...

hills

Common Mormons (Papilio polytes), Small Grass Yellows (Eurema brigitta) and Common Emigrant (Catopsilia pomona) butterflies mud-puddling in a road-side ditch in the middle Ganga valley, above Shivpuri and Beasi.

Landour, Uttarakhand·hills · monsoon

Heliophorus moorei (Azure Sapphire) is a delicate little butterfly in the middle Himalaya and lower hills, and seen here in Landour, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·monsoon · forest

Incredible shots of a really stunning and colourful Indian Red Admiral (Vanessa indica) butterfly and a common sailor butterfly sitting on wild cherry blossoms. A common species from hilly regions of the country.

hills

Two Great Blackvein butterflies up close and in slow motion. Watch a Common Gull butterfly as it flies off in slow motion.

flowers · hills

Butterflies depend on the nectar of flowers as their diet. This Himalayan Red Admiral (Vanessa indica) is seen up close with its proboscis inside the flower.