A pair of pretty butterflies come visiting this morning...
(the other one is resting somewhere else)
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From post: "A pair of pretty butterflies come visiting this morning..."
Your photo shows a female Delias hyparete metarete (Painted Jezebel). It's a fairly common native species of S'pore.
Below the said butterfly is a yellowish-white object with black spots. It appears to be the pupa case of this butterfly species. If it's empty, your photo thus shows a newly-eclosed (ie. emerged) butterfly -- in which case, this Painted Jezebel has been with/near you for awhile (as opposed to being a recent morning visitor), & had found your stack of pots to be a sufficiently-secure place to pupate on. If the pupa is intact, it means you're going to have a newly-adult butterfly on your hands soon.
Perhaps your garden or its vicinity has the host plants that the caterpillar feeds on. These include: Rambutan, Mango, Sweetsop, Bilimbing, Coconut, as well as the native mistletoe Dendrophthoe pentandra.
For more info about the Painted Jezebel, you may check out:-
(1) Butterfly Circle, (2) NSS Butterfly Interest Group, (3) Samui Butterflies.
From post: "the other one is resting somewhere else"
Is the other butterfly the same species as the one featured in your photo ?
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