I was trying to trace a persistent error message in my camera and eventually found that it was due to a lost set of photos taken two years ago. I’d taken them during an early morning walk to look for birds inside Nameri national park, on the border between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. On the way back we saw a large number of butterflies in a space of about 15 minutes. I managed to photograph a few of them. This is what biodiversity means!
Chocolate tiger, Parantica melaneus
Mud-pooling chocolate grass yellow, Eurema sari
Common evening brown, Melanitis leda, in the morning
Peacock pansy, Junonia almana. There’s plastic inside the forest
Grey pansy, Junonia atleites
A mud-pooling pair of chocolate albatross, Appias lyncida
Open wings of the common palmfly, Elymnias hypermnestra
Just waking up – a common palmfly, Elymnias hypermnestra
Lemon pansy, Junonia lemonias
Male and female chocolate albatross, Appias lyncida
Don't hold your breath 