Saturday, August 14, 2010

Ixora and Butts

Honestly, I didn’t know that our cultivated Ixora attracted so many butterflies. Perhaps it is because I never really take note of butts till recently.

Here are some pictures of them taken around the same time and place in Punggol.

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Peacock Pansy.

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The more common Chocolate Pansy stuffing its proboscis on the opening of the coralla tube.

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Ciliate Blue.

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Common Tit.

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A skipper, possibly a Great Swift.

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Another of the same species.

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This Lemon Emigrant was the most difficult to take, fluttering away whenever I came close. Luckily, after awhile it seemed to get used to me and I was able to get some decent shots.

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Probably a Short-Banded Sailor. It even tried to drink from the flower buds.

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I wonder what this fly is doing. It obviously can’t reach the nectar deep in the flower without a long proboscis like the butterflies.

Besides butterflies and flies, there were also a lot of wasp-like insects flying around. Perhaps they prey on the butts?

Thanks to Mr Peacock Royal for his help in ID. :)

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