See the top leaf's underside. Are they eggs of this Common Jezebel. It was hovering around there for many minutes when I was trying to 'catch' something for my camera. Luckily for me this rested here for a while for me to take a couple of shots. Actually it was in my neighbour's garden just across the wall 6-7 feet away.
Dinu, I'm not sure, but if you could find out what plant that is and then see if it is a host plant for the CJ.
Will have a re-look tomorrow. It's half past ten now and I've just finished dinner.
The eggs are a cream yellow and the larvae feed on Mistletoe.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/olympusmicd/galleries/butterfly/paintedjezebeld1.html
Cream yellow... attached to silky strands?
I don't think that pic on the link showed the eggs, it might have been a close up of the wing colour variations as mentioned under it.
This is what was said about the eggs:
"Feeding on the tree parasites known as mistletoe, the gregarious caterpillars acquire phytotoxins from their host plants, which they carry for protection for the rest of their lives. The larvae that hatch from the creamy yellow eggs begin as small, hairy larvae with black heads and pale yellow bodies. Gregarious in nature, the caterpillar siblings feed on the upper surface of leaves, defoliating the host mistletoe."
It has one poor picture there of what I said. Because I notice that too below my orchid leaf.
It has one poor picture there of what I said. Because I notice that too below my orchid leaf. Earlier in the other thread, it was said to be that of the lacewing. But I don't see many of those in my garden.
Lacewings do lay eggs like that, but you don't often see them unless you stand in your garden for a long time like I do in sumemr, lol.
I have a feeling those things that look like eggs in the poor pic are something else sticking to the butterflie's wing, it is highly magnified.
Yes, you are right, the lacewings are so hard to spot unless you follow them in flight when they sit along a thin stem.
Ah, yes, that is the magnification. Sorry for the faux pas on my part. I was in office and since there were many lines to read, I just glanced through quickly and posted it. BTW, I wonder how that post above was posted twice - the first one half way through!
