1. BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLIES B. Siddaramaiah Retd. Professor of Zoology

2. On a day with dappled light, In a world of greed and strife, With a message clear and bright, God’s angels come to life. Full of grace and Nature’s sheen, Sipping nectar, as they ply On wings of red, blue and green, Happiness is a Butterfly!

13. Systematic Position Phylum – Arthropoda Class – Insecta Order – Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths) Time of Origin – 130 million years ago during cretaceous World lepidopteras 174250 species included under 26 families Butterflies in Indian region – 1500 species and moths 10000 species Butterflies of peninsular India – 335 species – 34 species are endemic

14. Some families of butterflies Danaidae (Milkweed butterflies) Papilionidae (Swallow tail butterflies) Pieridae (Whites and Yellow butterflies) Satyridae (Brown butterfiles) Nymphalidae (Brush footed butterflies) Lycaenidae (Blue butterflies) Hesperiidae (Skipper Butterflies)

17. Lime Butterfly

18. Common Crow

20. Common Leopard

21. Plain Tiger

22. Peacock pansy

23. Blue Bottle

25. Common Mime

26. Great Orange Tip

27. Wanderor

28. Emigrant

29. Crimson Rose

30. Kallima (Dead Leaf butterfly)

32. Admiral

33. Skipper

34. Common Mormon

35. Commander

36. Blue Pancy

37. Lemon Pancy

38. Common Grass yellow

39. Common Jezebel

40. Common Pierot

41. Dark Blue Tiger

42. Yellow Pancy

43. Great Egg Fly-Male

44. Great Egg Fly-Female

45. Danaid Egg Fly-Male

46. Danaid Egg Fly-Female

47. Angled Castor

48. Common Sailor

49. Blue Mormon

50. Common Banded Peacock

51. Blue Commander

52. Skipper

53. Red Pierot

54. Striped Tiger

55. Tawny Coster

56. Tailed Jay

57. Bush Brown

58. Malabar Tree nymph

59. Common Map

60. Grass Jewel

61. Indian Sunbeam

62. Indian Cabbage White

63. Tamil Lace Wing

65. Southern Bird Wing

66. Great Crimson Tip

67. Giant Red Eye

68. Mud Puddling

69. Queen Alexandra’s bird wing-New Guinea(Wing Span 25-28cms )

70. Micro Psyche of North America(Wing Span 5-7mm )

71. Monarch Butterflies migrate from Canada to Mexico covering a distance of 3200 kms