There's a part of the walk around the Summer Leys Reserve is a small meadow known as 'Butterfly Meadow'. Here I saw a few butterflies and bees. This one is an Orange Tip Butterfly that was flying between flowers
A Common Jezebel (Delias eucharis) stops for a moment's respite from the day's blistering heat, as Mumbai's late winter gives way to a blazing summer.🌡️
Butterflies are especially important pollinators in urban areas, since, unlike bees, they aren't particularly sensitive to altered ecosystems, and happily go about their business of pollinating every second morsel of food we consume.
This is the first (and so far only) monarch butterfly we have spotted this year. We used to have so many here I managed to photograph a lot nearby. (Link: https://www.elliekennard.ca/monarchs/ ) But let us celebrate this one today! It was resting in the evergreen tree on our property.
Have a lovely Wednesday, FediFriends.