Tharulya's Diaries

  Mottled Emigrant butterfly      A mottled emigrant ’s scientific name is Catopsilia pyranthe . It is in the order Pieridea. Their food plant is Panithora . The caterpillar is green with black and white stripes on the sides.    Emigrants are green colour butterflies. The female mottled emigrant has spots in her wing.          Their pupa is like a rolled up leaf. Like the emigrant caterpillar and butterfly, the pupa is green colour. `       

This story begins when a red vented bulbul comes to our house, it lands on our lamps and curtains. The bird selected our curtains. We knew that the bird was building a nest because it was bringing sticks. One day I found a stick witch has fallen down from the nest, it was longer than the bird itself!   With help from another red vented bulbul [witch must be the male or female bird] they finished building their nest from some days.        Sometime after building the nest, the female red vented bulbul kept sitting on the nest. We started to think that the female laid eggs. She left the nest time to time to look for food. She sometimes sits on the nest at night. But sometimes she doesn’t. from about one week we found an eggshell thrown away by the red vented bulbul parents. When we are inside our house, I saw one of the adults taking some food for the hatchlings. Both parents bring food for the hatchlings. ...