Common Grass Yellow

Description:

The Common Grass Yellow or Large Grass Yellow, Eurema hecabe hecabe Linnaeus 1758 (Pieridae; Coliadinae) exhibits seasonal polyphenism with its darker summer morph being triggered by a long day exceeding 13 hours in duration, while the shorter diurnal period of 12 hours or less induces a fairer morph in the post-monsoon period (Wikipedia). E. h. hecabe is the ssp. occurring in several Luzon and Mindanao islands.

Habitat:

Makiling Botanic Gardens, a 300-hectare protected forest park, situated at the lower elevations of the Mount Makiling Forest Reserve's Molawin-Dampalit watershed in Los Baños, Laguna.

Notes:

Reference: http://butterflycircle.blogspot.com/2013...