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Blue Tiger
Tirumala limniace



I found this species commonly everywhere I went in India. It is mimicked by form dissimilis of the common mime, Chilasa clytia.



The species is unpalatable, so it was a surprise to find the wings of one that had obviously been taken by a bird!







Blue tigers are very gregarious butterflies. Here is a dangling, shady branch of a tree covered in dozens of blue tigers, as well as a few common crows (Euploea core)





As the afternoon drew on they gathered to roost higher in the trees: