Common mormon ,Host plants are belongs to the Family “Rutaceae”.
Mimicry in Papilio polytes: Papilio polytes , otherwise known as the Common Mormon butterfly, ranges widely from Sri Lanka and India to Indo-China, S. Japan, the Philippines and Sunda Islands in SE Asia. Its caterpillars feed on a variety of Rutaceae plants (Citrus and allied genera, including lemon and orange plants) and the butterfly is palatable to its predators such as birds.
http://biodiversitylab.ncbs.res.in/papilio-polytes
1)Butterfly that emerges from my Homelab .
These pupa turned into a Female common mormon.
2)Got one more caterpillar from Curryleaf plant that turned to Common mormon male.
3)Once my hostel warden gave me a pupal stage of Common mormon ,Thiruvanathapuram ,Kerala
4)I observed 7 caterpillars from Curryleaf plant ,Homelab Cherukkad .I collected those caterpillar and add them on a plastic box .
when I went for CUBE NATIONAL MEET 2023 my parents were fed them with Curryleaf plants ,but when I returned only 6 of them were observed in my box .
0n 26/07/2023 ~8pm out of 6 common mormon 2 emerges to butterfly . .
Pupae emerges to Butterflies
Place :Cherukkad ,Kozhikode
Date:26/07/2/23
Time :~8pm
Theertha
Story of Six Common mormon Butterfly in Homelab
3rd Common mormon Butterfly emerges .
Place:Cherukkad,Kozhikode
Date:28/07/2023
Time:3.30pm
Theertha
Story of Six Common mormon Butterfly in Homelab
4th Common mormon female Butterfly emerges .
Place:Cherukkad,Kozhikode
Date:2/08/2023
Time:9.30am
Theertha
Story of Six Common mormon Butterfly in Homelab
5th Common mormon male Butterfly emerges .
Place:Cherukkad,Kozhikode
Date:4/08/2023
Time:11.30am
Theertha
Story of Six Common mormon Butterfly in Homelab
6th Common mormon male Butterfly emerges .
Place:Cherukkad,Kozhikode
Date:8/08/2023
Time:10am
Theertha
4)Observed one caterpillar in a Curryleaf plant from my Aunty’s house .
On 2/08/2023
On 10/08/2023
[10/08, 4:00 pm] Abhijeet CUBE: @~Vidip and @~Manasi B looking for caterpillars and eggs in botanical garden of Somaiya College. Did you found any ? @~Vidip @~Manasi B ? CUBE Somaiya College, Vidyavihar, Mumbai. 10th August 2023.
[10/08, 5:02 pm] +91 91529 10532: We were looking caterpillars and eggs on curry plant
And on curry plant we couldn’t found eggs and caterpillars.
[11/08, 8:42 am] Charvi DSC: Theerthaaaaaaaa
[11/08, 8:42 am] Charvi DSC: I searched 10 curry plantssssss.
[11/08, 8:43 am] Charvi DSC: And 7 lemonsss
[11/08, 8:43 am] Charvi DSC: Couldn’t find a single Caterpillar or any egg
After seeing all these enthusiastic effort by Cubists made me to search caterpillars in my Curryleaf plants.
Got one caterpillar from Curryleaf plant 1.
After seeing this photo from @Abhijeet CUBE @~Vidip ,i searched for caterpillars in Curryleaf plant .
Objective :To collects eggs and caterpillars from Curryleaf plant &observe which form of Common mormon it become .
Place :Cherukkad,Kozhikode
Date:10/08/2923
Time :4.15pm
Theertha
2 more caterpillars got from Curryleaf plant 2.
Observed Common mormon laying eggs on my neighbour’s Curryleaf plant .
Place :Cherukkad,Kozhikode
Date:11/08/2923
Time :11.59am
Theertha
Collected that egg and kept in a plastic box .
Place :Cherukkad,Kozhikode
Date:11/08/2923
Time :12.10pm
Theertha
Size of the egg ~1mm.
Today caterpillar emerges from Egg
