A male Hypolimnas bolina, also called as blue moon butterfly.
Spotted this butterfly late afternoon, hanging upside down and flipping its beautiful wings.
I took a picture of him earlier hopping around my Lantana camara plant.I always see this butterfly on that plant, he loves it. Look how lovely his wings are on the video below.
These white flowers, I don’t know the name blooms in bunches once in a while and the flowers will last for just half a day.
Sweet scented flower
Its sweet scent will cover the entire area and the buzzing bees of course.
Morning glory flower
The bee with blue and black bands below is a regular visitor of my Lantana camara plant .I noticed him flying around that plant just last month. and it keeps on coming back.
This furled frond of a young fern had a gelatinous substance covering the entire rachis or the midrib of frond.
Some parts of it were insects trapped in the slime. It made me think that the mucous covering will served as its protection from the insects that feed on its sap.
And maybe, these ferns were sharing the same habitat together with insects that feed on young ferns. Well, just a thought.
This polydesmid millipede was burrowing its way through the space between the ground and the log.
Body segments of Orthomorpha
It has two pairs of legs per body segment. The legs are banded with color brown, white and orange with a brightly colored rustic brown to yellow paranota. It can also crawl upside down.
The shell was empty when I found this in the forest and I don’t know the name of the snail. Its color was interesting and new to me so I snapped a picture of it before I went on.
A fungi with twisted branching fruiting bodies, color black at the base and powdered grayish-white color towards the middle going to the top. It looks like a burnt twig covered with ash powder on its body. If you look closely, you can see powdered substance spreading out at its base.
Ascomycetous fungiDr. Medina, examining fungus.
We found this fungus growing on a rotten wood covered with mosses and leaf litters.