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These body-less wings (I arranged them) suggest a bird had foolhardily tried one. It probably didn't go for any more after that, as all the species in this group are toxic, I think. They don't kill - but birds try them, get sick, and learn to avoid similar things in the future.
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Here is a common crow - a beautiful butterfly despite its apparently drab appearance in flight. These seemed happy to share communal roosts with blue tigers. These photos were taken in Mysore.
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Plain tigers cruised around in smaller numbers, but commonly. This one was in the cemetery in Kolkata where my grandfather is buried:
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The American/European monarch (Danaus plexippus) doesn't fly in India but a closely related species, the striped tiger (Danaus genutiae) does. I didn't get any good photo-ops with this species, but here's a record shot of one that settled briefly in the grass:
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In general, these large butterflies were far harder to photograph than the small ones, especially as I had so little time and so much to do. I was lucky to get a brief photo-op with this tawny coster (Acraea violae) in central Kolkata:
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This is a species commonly found in butterfly farms, I think. It was lovely to see it flying around in the wild!
Guy