Butterfly

  Butterfly 

Do not be carried away if one flying colour has selected you among many while on a stroll in the garden. A group of students were walking in a garden after their usual combined study workshop when a great hornbill butterfly with its massive yellow casque landed on his hand and fluttered there for a few seconds. He was wonder struck, others admired him for having selected him from many by this celestial wonder.

We tend to think of butterflies as ethereal creatures built of light cultural symbols of everything from grace and love to inspirational transformation. Is he to be admired? He was blotting with pride; but the real fact was his blotting appearance that attracted the butterfly. He sweat more and are smellier; the emitted sweet vapours while walking landed upon him to taste his sweat and to sip moisture.

I have two shrubs in my kitchen backyard; a lemon tree and curry leaves tree. Both attracts red admiral butterflies and lay eggs on their tender leaves. Within a short time you will see large caterpillars eating the entire green leaves and keeps growing until one day it stops. In a couple of days you can see a curling green hanging in a chrysalis shroud. Everything quiet for some days, inside shroud would be akin to samadhi. Their inside dissolve into a liquid mush, most of the cells die, some adult cells survive and finally we have a brilliant adult butterfly.

I am very much interested to read about butterflies whenever the article appear in news paper. An additional search in the Google will give information which have not been taught in science classes. One such information was about 'alcon blue' butterfly. Due to its larves' peculiar similarly with a particular type of ants, it's larves' are stolen and deposited in the cellular homes of ants. Just like kukkoo laying eggs in crows nest. The larve grows there till it take the shape of a butterfly.

Another interesting aspect about butterflies is its attraction towards dead bodies of animals. Butterflies are first to spot the caracases for extracting juices from the decomposed body. Investigators get information about the missing corpse with the presence of a particular type of butterflies around it. 

Common types of butterflies found in our country are monark, white admiral, red admiral, great hornbill, adonis, bellona, Vanessa, harvester etc. Let me conclude till I get to know more about this angelic creature of Almighty.

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