Flutter-By

Not a very productive day today, so here's a butterfly from Lal Lal on Monday:

It is a male Heteronympha merope, the excitingly-named Common Brown Butterfly. There were butterflies everywhere! The caterpillars of this butterfly apparently feed on grasses like this:

This beautiful grass is hip-high. (It might be Microlaena stipoides - weeping grass.) Obviously the rain this year has been good for it. In fact the whole block looks greener than it ever has. It was almost unrecognisable.