{"id":7119,"date":"2023-04-03T11:56:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T06:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7119"},"modified":"2025-03-28T17:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T11:54:24","slug":"caltoris-bromus-sadasiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/caltoris-bromus-sadasiva\/","title":{"rendered":"Caltoris Bromus Sadasiva"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Caltoris Bromus Sadasiva<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Caltoris bromus sadasiva is the first <strong>Bromus swift butterfly<\/strong> to be documented in the <strong>Western Ghats.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The species Bromus swift (Caltoris Bromus), is a skipper butterfly belonging to the <strong>Hesperiidae family<\/strong> of Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies), from the Western Ghats and Peninsular India.<\/li>\n<li>Caltoris is an <strong>Indo-Australian genus<\/strong> has over 15 species distributed across southeast Asia.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Caltoris Bromus is one of them and has two other subspecies Caltoris bromus bromus and <strong>Caltoris bromus yanuca.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about Vembanad Lake<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Vembanad is the largest lake in Kerala and the longest Lake in India.<\/li>\n<li>The lake has its source in four rivers<strong>, Meenachil, Achankovil, Pampa and Manimala<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vallam Kali<\/strong> ( <strong>Nehru Trophy Boat Race<\/strong>) is a Snake Boat Race held every year in August in Vembanad Lake.<\/li>\n<li>In 2002, it was included in the list of wetlands of international importance, as defined by the <strong>Ramsar Convention.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Government of India has identified the Vembanad wetland under the <strong>National Wetlands Conservation Programme.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary<\/strong> is located on the east coast of the lake.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Pollination?<\/h3>\n<p>Pollination is the delivery of pollen to the female organs of a plant (stigma in flowers). Pollen is made by the male organs of a plant (stamens in flowers) and contains genetic information needed for plant reproduction. Pollen may be transferred to female organs on the same plant (self-pollination) or another plant of the same species (cross-pollination).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/new-butterfly-species-discovered-in-kerala\/article66691743.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>New butterfly species discovered in Kerala<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caltoris bromus sadasiva is the first Bromus swift butterfly to be documented in the Western Ghats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7119","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\/7119","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=7119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}