The Common Jezebel (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delias_eucharis" class="extiw" title="w:Delias eucharis">Delias eucharis</a>) is a medium sized <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieridae" class="extiw" title="w:Pieridae">pierid</a> butterfly found in many areas of South and Southeast Asia, especially in the non-arid regions of India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand. The Common Jezebel is one of the most common species in the genus <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delias" class="extiw" title="w:Delias">Delias</a>. 
<p>The butterfly may be found wherever there are trees, even in towns and cities, flies high among the trees and comes lower down only to feed on nectar in flowers. It rests with its wings closed exhibiting the brilliantly coloured underside. Due to this habit apparently, it has evolved a dull upper-side and a brilliant underside so that birds below it recognise it immediately while in flight and at rest. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aposematism" class="extiw" title="w:Aposematism">bright coloration</a> is to indicate the fact that it is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatability" class="extiw" title="en:Palatability">unpalatable</a> due to toxins accumulated by the larvae from the host-plants.
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Taken at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadavoor" class="extiw" title="w:Kadavoor">Kadavoor</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala" class="extiw" title="w:Kerala">Kerala</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" class="extiw" title="w:India">India</a>.
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jkadavoor" title="User:Jkadavoor">Jeevan Jose, Kerala, India</a>
2012-09-02 13:50:09
<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>