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| Common Mormon Butterfly |
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Common Mormon Butterfly emerging from the Pupa © Mallikarjuna.D.G. Pupa © Mallikarjuna.D.G. Pupa a night before emergence © Mallikarjuna.D.G. Butterfly opens the pupa like a door © Mallikarjuna.D.G. Butterfly suspends itself to spread the wings © Mallikarjuna.D.G. Butterfly is ready to take off © Mallikarjuna.D.G. © Mallikarjuna.D.G. Common Mormon (Papilio polytes Linnaeus) Wingspan 90-100mm This Butterfly is jet black with a row of white spots along the central region of the hind wing. The margin of the fore wing also has a series of smaller white spots. It inhabits home gardens and other well wooded areas around habitations, deciduous forests and edges and openings in the semi evergreen and evergreen forests. It is most common in the monsoon and immediate post monsoon, but active throughout the year. The Common Mormon feeds on nectar and also visits wet patches of soil. Due to its large size and long proboscis, it can feed from flowers with long corolla tubes.
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