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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thirudevaram" data-source="post: 3702913" data-attributes="member: 99823">Chinese Hairstreak (Amblopala avidiena)Hot of the plate. April 8th started with our regular spring watch, only to be detained by the Police at the XiaoYangshan Port island, well they thought i was there to bomb the port and disrupt the trade route. After 90 minutes of Same Questions/Same answers routine, they let us go. The cop told me in his tattered English "Go back Shanghai, See bird in Century Park".It was of any coincidence, two years ago, i had the major passage of "Asian Swallowtails" (9 April 2016). And two years later, we had another big passage just 24 hours ahead of the previous sighting (8th April 2018).It was good to see massive no's of Swallowtails but our butterfly of the day is the "Chinese Hairstreak". We saw only two individuals, they were seen most of the time on the new leaf buds as it seemed they were feeding on them.Common Name : Chinese HairstreakScientific Name : Amblopala avidienaChinese Name : 丫灰蝶Distribution : Shaanxi, Hunan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian</blockquote>