sightings in Koramangala this week mark part of a broader lepidopteran pulse across the city—35-plus moth and butterfly species have been recorded in the monsoon rains. The caterpillars of the Tasar moth depend on Terminalia and Anogeissus, the classic canopy trees of the original Deccan dry forests, making their appearance in dense urban Bengaluru a telling sign.
Finding them here means native tree patches are still ecologically functional—real forest corridors persisting in the city's landscape, not just ornamental relics. Each Tasar caterpillar is a vote of confidence that somewhere among the apartment blocks and roads, the wild bones of this ecosystem are still intact and feeding them.
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