Surya... good info , in my village this is one of the money crop biz what most of the people doing, infact I have seen this in lot, next time I shall try to take few photos
in different stage and send you ok.
very nice. I remember my old days when my children were school going! There used to be lots of butterfly moths at larva-pupa stage under the leaves of 'arali' plant. If we observe its growth daily, one fine morning you can see a butterfly coming out of it and fly in few hours! A treat to watch!
Sashank, Surya is glad you enjoyed it.
Lakshmi, nice to know you were connected to Pattu-business too! I guess you are connected to all things beautiful! How about jewelry business? :)
Jayaji, when I get a chance, I'll try to show my kids arali plants. That was an interesting bit of info.
Surya,
We were learning about the life cycle of living things last year in class three.We learnt about the life cycle of a butterfly quite similar to the moth life cycle.What you wrote reminded me of this lesson.This moth in the picture is real or dead?
Sahana
Sahana, Surya is not here now, so I'm going to answer on her behalf.
The moth in the picture is the real one, which came to our house in that cup as a cocoon.
Surya had placed it on the mantle, and the moth hatched out of the cocoon after a few days. But, the sad part is, it died after 3 days (they have a short lifespan).
In reply to Surya, We were learning by rajamma_2