beautiful butterfly (incredible) growing on banana leaves. this butterfly is captured by Sri Lanka Home Garden at middeniya.
Sri Lanka is home to 245 species of butterflies with 23 of these being endemic to the island.
Of the 245 species, 76 are listed as threatened nationally, while Ceylon Rose is designated as critically endangered.
"A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult." (WiKi)
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Sri Lanka and it's Wildlife
The Island of Sri Lanka lies 3 degrees north of the equator, 82 degrees east of Greenwich and 32 KM southeast of India. She occupies 65,610 sq Km (approximately 25,000 sq miles). Sri Lanka is shaped like a giant teardrop falling from the southern tip of the vast Indian subcontinent. It is separated from India by the 50km wide Palk Strait, although there is a series of stepping-stone coral islets known as Adam's Bridge which almost form a land bridge between the two countries. The island is just 350km long and only 180km wide at its widest. The southern half of the island is dominated by beautiful and rugged hill country. The entire northern half comprises a large plain extending from the edge of the hill country to the Jaffna peninsula. She possesses tropical beaches, ancient monuments, rain forests, gorgeous waterfalls and many places to delight any person. The highest mountain is the 2524m Mt Pidurutalagala near Nuwara Eliya and the longest river is the Mahaweli which courses from the centre and empties into the Indian Ocean at Trincomalee. The best beaches are on the south-western, southern and south-eastern coasts.
This is a Luna Moth.
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