National Bird Of Pakistan

The Chukar Partridge or more specifically Red-legged partridge (Alectoris chukar) is beautiful bird in the pheasant family Phasianidaethe. Chukar Partridge has black and white bars on the flanks and a black band running from the forehead across the eye and running down the head to form a necklace that encloses a white throat. It has red legs, beak and eye rims. Chukar Partridge is the national bird of Pakistan.

The gloomy and weak Chukar, you see here in the picture, is the true representation of Pakistani nation, who is facing in-numerous problems including poverty, high inflation rate, low education standard and literacy rate, unemployment, political instability, poor economic growth, terrorism, insecurity, corruption and particularly the energy crises. A nation who is facing 20-22 hours daily electricity load-shedding. A nation who claims to be the 7th Nuclear Power, but got no medal in the 2012 London Olympic games, even after 66 years of its independence.

Chukar-National Bird Of Pakistan

Praying Mantis Mating

Praying Mantis Mating

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