4146. An assembly of butterflies today 6 Jun 2022.

6 Jun 2022. Yio Chu Kang Cres forest at corner of YCKC road, opposite entrance to Seletar Bus Depot.

Hot and humid but bright sunny morning 10 AM

BUTTERFLIES SEEN

1. Small-sized Common Grass Yellow one fluttering most of the time.

2. Medium-sized yellow white sipping nectar from Bidens pilosa wildflower (video).

3. The Peacock Pansy with right torn hind wing.

4. The Chocolate Pansy perfect

5. The tricoloured butterfly

6. The brown striped with white butterfly. Striped Albatross. Looks very white when seen from afar.

7.The busy buzzing Mormom

8. The  tattered wing Chocolate Pansy butterfly x 3 videos

9. The Palm Dart (brown one today) butterfly

10. The Malayan sergeant

11. The Common Parasol

12. The brown dragonfly dull coloured.

13. The striped dragonfly.

14. Mosquitoes with blood

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The Purple Cleome (Cleome rutidosperma)
Host plant for Striped Albatross (Appia libythea olferna), the Pysche (Leptosia nina malayana) and Cabbage White (Pieris canidia canidia)

 
The flower are composed of 4 reddish petals that gradually fade to pink or light purple. The petals point upwards and are arranged side-by-side in a fan-like pattern.

 Herbaceous plants that form dense mats or grow as an epiphyte.

 

 Compound, trifoliate leaves are composed of elliptic to narrowly ovate leaflets. The leaflets are tightly packed together and united at the base without any intervening stalk. The sunken, pinnate venation creates a quilted leaf surface.