{"id":16166,"date":"2023-10-22T02:29:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T20:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16166"},"modified":"2025-04-04T07:28:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T01:58:50","slug":"paintbrush-swift-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/paintbrush-swift-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Paintbrush swift butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Paintbrush swift butterfly<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a butterfly species of the\u00a0Hesperiidae family.<\/li>\n<li>The species has never been photographed in Himachal Pradesh since its discovery in 1878.<\/li>\n<li>This is the first time that we have photographed and documented it.<\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0first described by lepidopterist Frederic Moore,\u00a0more than 145 years ago.<\/li>\n<li>It is identified based on two separated spots in the upper forewing cell.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The species\u2019 larvae feed on bamboo and some other grass species.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Habitat:\u00a0Its habitat is distributed in\u00a0northeast,\u00a0central and south India, and rare in Uttarakhand.<\/li>\n<li>Threats:\u00a0Habitat loss and\u00a0scarcity of larval host plants are major causes of the decline in the butterfly population. An\u00a0increase in pesticide use, deforestation, and climate change.<\/li>\n<li>Conservation\u00a0status\n<ul>\n<li>This species is legally protected in India under\u00a0Schedule IV of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Q1) What is Pollination?<\/h2>\n<p>Pollination is a crucial ecological process that plays a vital role in the reproduction of flowering plants (angiosperms). It involves the transfer of pollen from the male reproductive organ (anther) of a flower to the female reproductive organ (stigma) of the same or a different flower, resulting in fertilization and the production of seeds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/paintbrush-swift-butterfly-is-photographed-for-the-first-time-in-himachal-pradesh\/article67445928.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>A paintbrush swift butterfly is photographed for the first time in Himachal Pradesh<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paintbrush swift butterfly  is a butterfly species of the Hesperiidae family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}