Butterfly Chrysalis

Different species of butterflies have different types and colors Chrysalises/Pupae. Here are the pictures of Chrysalis of 12 different species of butterflies including painted lady, common castor, common leopard, grass yellow, plain tiger, bath white, large cabbage white, common emigrant, blue pansy, danaid eggfly and striped pierrot respectively. Some people use the term cocoon wrongly for the butterfly pupa. A cocoon is a casing spun of silk by many moth caterpillars and numerous other holometabolous insect larvae as a protective covering for the pupa.

Butterfly Chrysalis

Jujube Tree

Jujube Tree (Ziziphus mauritiana)

Green Metallic Beetle

This Green Metallic Beetle is Chiloloba acuta the only member in the genus Chiloloba. It belongs to subfamily Cetoniinae (Flower chafers beetles) in the family Scarabaeidae (Scarab beetles). It has a stout hairy body, usually having shiny, metallic green color. Adults occasionally feed on cereal crops like sorghum and maize, while their larvae generally feed on roots of grasses. It's commonly known as green flower chafers beetle or more broadly green scarab beetle.

Green Metallic Beetle

Owl-flies

Owl-flies are dragonfly-like insects that form the family Ascalaphidae in the order Neuroptera (net-winged insects). They have large bulging eyes and long knobbed antennae and are about 50 mm long.  They are diurnal or crepuscular predators of other flying insects. Their predatory larvae are similar to antlion larvae, but do not build pits to capture prey, rather they lie on the ground or in vegetation, waiting for their prey. The thorax and abdomen of the larval body have finger-like appendage on the side of each segment. The larvae have large sickle-shaped mandibles, which are used to capture prey.

Owl-flies (Family Ascalaphidae)

Owl-fly

Owl-fly

Owl-fly

Owl-fly Larva

Owl-fly Larva

Rainbow Bee

Rainbow Bee (Nomia sp.) is a species of bee in the family Halictidae. The species' name is referring to the red and green reflections on the blue bands. Rainbow Bee is an important pollinator.  It visits our eggplants very frequently.

Rainbow Bee

Thread-waisted Wasps

Thread-waisted Wasps (Ammophila spp.) belong to family Sphecidae. They have long thread-waist with black and orange-brown in colors. The wasp here is Thread-waisted Caterpillar Hunter Wasp, with a body length about 30 mm. They are caterpillar hunters and nest in sand burrows. The paralyzed caterpillars are used as food for their larvae.

Thread-waisted Wasp (Ammophila spp.)

Flea beetle

Flea beetle is a common name applied to the small, jumping beetles in the family Chrysomelidae (leaf beetle family). They make up the tribe Alticini, in the subfamily Galerucinae.
 The Flea beetle here is Aulacophora  lewisii. Aulacophora  lewisii is about 6.5 mm long. The head, pronotum, abdomen, legs and antennae are orange-yellow, elytra black, shorter than the abdomen.

Flea Beetle