Yes! All my life I keep a look out for new butterflies and in my current workplace, I've found one! Behold! The Indian Cupid!
My new workplace is beside a little farm/garden where they grow all sorts of vegetables. Inside, they have a hydroponics bay so I suppose you could say it's quite a green work place. When I can, I go out to the garden to look around and imagine my surprise when I saw this!
At first, I thought it was a lesser grass blue, the more common butterfly in Singapore that's around this size. However, when you examine the wings, you can see that it is quite different. The lesser grass blue is duller and more brown while this is more grey and has vivid orange and black spots near the tail.
So, as always when I can, I took some pictures of it and went home to consult my guidebook. There, I discerned from the location and size of the wing spots, as well as the color of the inner wing, that it was most likely an Indian Cupid: A rare butterfly!
Yes! I've always wanted to see rare butterflies and I found one right beside my work place. I was ecstatic. Lucky too. I went back again over the next few days and I never saw it again. I guess my timing just happened to be right the last time.
Woohoo!!!
May.
At first, I thought it was a lesser grass blue, the more common butterfly in Singapore that's around this size. However, when you examine the wings, you can see that it is quite different. The lesser grass blue is duller and more brown while this is more grey and has vivid orange and black spots near the tail.So, as always when I can, I took some pictures of it and went home to consult my guidebook. There, I discerned from the location and size of the wing spots, as well as the color of the inner wing, that it was most likely an Indian Cupid: A rare butterfly!
Yes! I've always wanted to see rare butterflies and I found one right beside my work place. I was ecstatic. Lucky too. I went back again over the next few days and I never saw it again. I guess my timing just happened to be right the last time.
Woohoo!!!
May.
