These days I must confess becoming an outdoor addict - an attestation my much sun-tanned arms and legs due to exposure but heck, it's good for the health! I had been doing a lot of "butterflying" lately because I wanted to record as much data as possible before well, hell breaks loose with the environment, giving the conditions we live in today and the abuses that continues despite every effort put into place by many NGOs and not so sure, the government...
Back to the story - "dingue" means crazy in French and this is what greeted me on the forest path on the way out of my usual trek: 5 different species of Charaxes and Polyuras on a tiny piece of animal dropping smack right in the middle! To find these butterflies alone is already difficult but all 5 of them together is a butterfly enthousiaste's dream...
From left to right: Charaxes bernadus crepax, Charaxes distanti distanti both known as Tawny Rajahs (C. distanti is a very rare species), Polyura delphis (the Jewel Nawab which is a pearl white butterfly at the back), 2 at the foreground is the Common Nawab, Polyura athamas athamas, and the extreme right is the Indian Nawab, Polyura jalysus jalysus. In case you are wondering: in the butterfly world, the Charaxes species are generally called Rajahs (they are stronger flyers with a decidedly more stout body) and the Polyura species are called well, Nawabs...
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