{"id":6607,"date":"2023-01-12T08:41:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T03:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6607"},"modified":"2025-03-27T15:53:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:23:47","slug":"white-tufted-royal-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/white-tufted-royal-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"White Tufted Royal Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0<strong>About White Tufted Royal Butterfly:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>White Tufted Royal Butterfly is a rare species and is protected under Schedule 2 of the Wildlife Protection Act.<\/li>\n<li>The wingspan of the butterfly is just 32-40 mm.<\/li>\n<li>Its larvae feed on Scurrula parasitica, a plant belonging to the Loranthaceae family.<\/li>\n<li>The species had been previously spotted in Agasthyakoodam in 2017 and the Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary in 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) Where is the Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary located?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the Kollam district of the Indian state of Kerala.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/rare-white-tufted-royal-butterfly-found-in-kannur\/article66366337.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rare White Tufted Royal Butterfly found in Kannur<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Tufted Royal Butterfly is a rare species protected under Schedule 2 of the Wildlife Protection Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6607","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\/6607","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=6607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}