wildlife

wildlife

Cicadas are calling in the background! Help us identify this species of butterfly! Isn't it a species of Tiger? Could it be the Chocolate Tiger or an allied species from the genus of Parantica...? Are these butterflies mating or feeding on…

wildlife · flowers

Phalanta phalantha is the Common Leopard butterfly that one can see across India, in the plains and in the middle Himalaya up to an altitude of 10, 000 feet.

wildlife · forest

The blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) is an antelope species native to the Indian Subcontinent that has been classified as near threatened by IUCN since 2003, as the blackbuck range has decreased sharply during the 20th century.

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…

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The Blue Tiger is a Danaid butterfly found in South and Southeast Asia. Closely resembles Tirumala limniace, Cramer, but is always sufficiently distinct to be easily recognized, even on the wing. From T.

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What is this butterfly doing? Can anyone explain this strange behavior? It seems to be probing the bark of the tree. Is it searching for tree sap, perhaps? Or is it sipping trapped moisture? Do help us identify this butterfly.

wildlife · flowers

Common Crow (Euploea core) and Glassy Tiger (Parantica aglea) butterflies flying in slow motion in India.

wildlife · river

Common Crow (Euploea core) and Glassy Tiger (Parantica aglea) butterflies flying in slow motion in India.

Meghalaya·wildlife

Danaidae, Chestnut tiger, lemon pansy and other butterflies on display at Wankhar Memorial Museum of Entomology Riatsamthiah in Shillong, Meghalaya. It is an entomological museum or commonly known as Butterflies Museum.

Meghalaya·wildlife

Papilio helenus, Chestnut tiger, Striped Blue Crow and Danaus Tytia butterflies on display at at Wankhar Memorial Museum of Entomology Riatsamthiah in Shillong, Meghalaya.

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A Blue Tiger butterfly or Tirumala limniace warming it's wings and basking in the sun in Sikkim.

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Do help us identify this butterfly, We suspect that it is a Glassy Tiger Butterfly

birds · wildlife

A Common Tiger (Danaus genutia) butterfly sits on Lantana camara flowers in India. Lantana is a pernicious weed-like shrub that has invaded India's wilderness areas, having been brought in from South America.

Madhya Pradesh·wildlife

Danaus chrysippus, also known as the Plain Tiger or African Monarch, is a common butterfly which is widespread in Asia and Africa.

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Danaus chrysippus, also known as the plain tiger or African monarch, is a medium-sized, butterfly widespread in Asia and Africa. It belongs to the Danainae (milkweed butterflies) subfamily of the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae.

Karnataka·wildlife

Striped Tiger (Danaus genutia), Common Crow (Euploea core), Glassy Tiger (Parantica aglae and White Tiger (Danaus melanippus) butterflies in a butterfly park in Bangalore.

Uttarakhand·monsoon · forest

We start with a stunning Glassy Tiger, (Tirumala limniace exoticus) followed by a common punch (Dodona durga) 3 other unidentified butterflies in Ladour.

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A male Plain Tiger (Danaus chrysippus) is filmed up close on green grass. It falls under the brush-footed butterflies and you can see that it shows only lour legs instead of six legs which is characteristic of insects.

wildlife

It's late spring and these two male individual butterflies are puddling on different leaves. The two butterflies are tasting food with their foot.

farmland · wildlife

Close-ups of a Plain Tiger butterfly (Danaus chrysippus) as seen in our summer-time orchard in Delhi. Watch as it opens and closes its wings in slow motion.

wildlife

A Common Jay (Graphium doson) is caught up close perching on a dry tree stump. They belong to the swallowtail butterflies and are always on the move, active throughout the day. Close up of the butterfly with detailed markings.

wildlife · flowers

These Plain Tigers are filmed mating on Amaryllis lily buds and other plants nearby. A pair of Plain Tiger or African Monarch are captured on film in their reproductive position sitting on a thistle plant.

wildlife

A flighty Blue Tiger butterfly hovers around the inflorescence of a firebush plant. These butterflies also fall into the brush-footed family of butterflies. These are delicate butterflies that are observed to be migratory sometimes.