Butterfly walk at Tamhini WLS, dist Pune, Maharashtra on 13.03.2022
Butterfly walk at Tamhini WLS on 13.03.2022
Group members participated in today's walk
Swanand Kesari
Mayuresh Kulkarni
Dr Himanshu Pandav
Pavan Damoor
Timing. 9 am to 2 pm
sharing the list of butterflies observed during the walk
• Skippers:
1) Brown awl
2) Black angle
3) Dark palm dart
4) chestnut angle
• Blues:
5) *Genus Nacaduba
6) Common lineblue
7) Tailless line blue
8) Forget me not
9) Pea blue
10) Long banded silverline
11) common silverline
12) Angled pierrot
13) Common pierrot
14) Grass jewel
15) Pointed ciliate blue
16) Quaker
17) Malayan
18) Hedge blue
19) Dark cerulean
• Metalmarks:
20) Double banded judy
• Brush footed butterflies:
21) Common crow
22) plain tiger
23) Glassy tiger
24) Dark blue tiger
25) Common sailer
26) Common sergeant
27) Plain tawny rajah
28) common leopard
29) Rustic
30) Club beak
31) Common evening brown
32) Lemon pansy
33) Chocolate pansy
34) Blue pansy
35) Yellow pansy
36) Grey pansy
37) Peacock Pansy
38) Common tree brown
39) Common Baron
40) Gaudy Baron
41) Sahyadri blue Oakleaf
42) Commander
43) Black prince
44) Common map
45) Indian nawab
• Whites and yellows
46) Common grass yellow
47) Emigrant (in flight)
48) Common gull
• Swallowtails:
49) Common Mormon
50) Blue mormon
51) Narrow banded bluebottle (fl)
52) Red Helen
53) Spot swordtail (fl)
54) Common Rose
55) lime Swallowtail
Today's overall activity was good but a few species like the Flash & guava blues didn't show up, even skipper activity was very low.
There was a heavy breeze due to which few butterflies were not ready to come down on the stream also.
The water level has increased in the streams as it had rained which is another reason for low activity as the Butterflies might be visiting various mud puddling patches.
Continuous visits to this habitat are giving us surprises, last month we managed to get a new record for Pune district "Sahyadri silver royal" which was a superb sighting for all of us.
And today's showstopper was the Indian spot swordtail which was the first sighting in Tamhini and we were all surprised by its presence. the butterfly was seen in flight around 12 noon but didn't show up and vanished into the forest. Hope to get a record shot of the beauty in the next walks.
sharing a few unedited photos. 😀
Happy Butterflying to all 🦋🦋
