Good luck to everyone.
Hope everyone is well. Today I am going to share with you a wonderful and exciting experience of my rooftop garden. Nature presents us with new wonders every day, and today my rooftop garden was a witness to that wonder.
While taking care of the plants in the garden, a strange and beautiful insect suddenly came to my attention. It is basically a type of moth, whose scientific name is Amata cyssea. However, many people also call it Handmaiden Moth or Baghmoth or Bolata-moth in Bengali. The insect was sitting quietly on a young tip of grass. The transparent spots on its beautiful blue-black wings and the bright yellow-orange striped spots on its body will catch anyone's eye at a glance. It is as if nature has decorated it with the perfect brushstrokes of a skilled artist.
As the moth was swinging on the tip of the grass, I didn't want to miss this opportunity. I tried to take several macro photos of it very carefully with my mobile phone. I was afraid that the slightest movement might make it fly away. But this beautiful creation of nature seemed to pose for me for a while to take pictures.
Below I share another close-up shot I took, where its fine hairs on its body are visible.
This body structure, which is usually bright in color and looks like a beetle, is called Batesian mimicry in scientific terms. These moths cannot actually bite or sting and are completely harmless. But to escape from nature's predators, they adopt such a form that the predators are afraid to attack them, thinking that they are poisonous beetles. This self-defense technique of nature is truly remarkable.
In the midst of busy urban life, the green plants of the rooftop garden already give peace to the mind. And when I see such a diverse range of small creatures there, the joy of gardening increases many times over. I hope you enjoyed these macro photos I took and this little story of nature.
This was my arrangement for today. I hope you liked the pictures I took and the nature observations. Wishing everyone good health, I bid you farewell here today.
| Dҽʋιƈҽl | Realme-C25s |
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| 𝕃𝕠𝕔𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 | Dhaka, Bangladesh |