15.09.2023 - 8.10.

2023

SURVEY
ANALYS
IS
An exciting peek into the daily
lives of some flutterers...
Table of Contents
01 Some Popular
Attractants
04 Salix Babylonica

02 Activity Hubs
05 Memorable Spottings

03 Timing Matter!
06 Moth Issues

Lantana
• 30 records of till 08.10.2023
• Very popular among both moths and
butterflies.
• Common Leopards, Plain Tigers,
Jays and many many others
SOME POPULAR
ATTRACTANTS
Garlic Chives
• 14 records till 08.10.2023
• Very popular among butterflies,
moths, wasps and bees too!
• Common Silverlines, Nine - Spotted
Moths, Plain Tigers
Crape Jasmines
• 11 records till 8.10.2023
• Mostly attracts moths, some
butterflies
• Beet Webworm Moths, Small
Branded Swifts and some small
Blues.
SOME POPULAR
ATTRACTANTS

Tridax Daisy

• 11 records of till 08.10.2023

• Common Leopards, Plain Tigers,
Common Tigers
• Occasionally some Swifts and some
blues
Activity 2. Citrus Plantation
• Kumquat - Common Lime, Common
Mormon, Gram Blue
• Egyptian Lime - African Babul Blue

Hubs
• Butterfly Conservatory
• Lantana
• Ferns
• Rattlebox
• Donkey ears - Red Pierrot
• Weeping Willow
• Clematis terniflora - Moths at
night
Timings Matter!
15.09.23 - 22.09.23
22.09.23
• Mornings - 6:30 AM to 7:30 AM
• Evenings - 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Onwards
• Mornings - 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
• Less activity 2. Evenings - 6:45 PM to 7:45 PM
• Less diversity • Burst of activity
• Overwhelming diversity
Salix babylonica -
Weeping Willow
• 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
• Plain Tigers
• No activity
• Very high numbers
• Just resting
• However, numbers are reducing
now
 MEMORABLE FINDS

COMMON Beet Webworm Moth

SCIENTIFIC
NAMENAM:
: Spoladea recurvalis
• Small, brown moth with white wing
patterns
• Mostly found near Crape Jasmines

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 MEMORABLE FINDS

COMMON Common Evening Brown

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Melantis leda
NAME:

• Big brown butterfly with big spots

on underside of wings
• Found once on Nerium plant

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MEMORABLE FINDS

COMMON NAME: Common Jay

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Graphium doson

• Striking blue Swallowtails

(Papilionidae)
• Mostly found around Lantana and
Citrus
plantation
• Swift flyers that hardly rest on flowers
MEMORABLE FINDS

COMMON NAME: Lemon Pansy

SCIENTIFIC NAME:
Junonia lemonias

• Brown butterfly with spots on tips of

wings.
• Found on rocks and the ground
appart from Lantana.
 Mostly found around
Lantana
Red
Pierrott

Common
Leopard
Found in high numbers
around Donkey Ears
Moth Issues...
Thank
you