Sunday, January 2, 2011

The yellow pansy

I visited Uganiyam on the last weekend of 2010. We  travelled on bikes anticipating a really bad road that could either break our back or spare us with a few scratches.

 We had very little time since we entered the range at around 2pm, we hurried through on the loose gravel road where the 2 bikers admirably made it through albeit a few scratches each.

As we made our way, I had a chance glimpse of this buttefly, at first glance seemed to be like a danaid but whose spots were yellow. I dared not stop the bike, which would have meant us surely sliding headlong into the steep road. I was trying to figure out if I know this one, when a second butterfly caught my eye with the self same yellow, and then it opened its wings and took my breathe away, there at the bottom of its upper fore wing, on both sides lay a  blue spot like pupils. That was my first ever encounter with a yellow pansy.

For more details on this butterfly check - http://www.naturemagics.com/butterfly/precis-hierta.shtm