Naming
* G. d. doson⤷ G. d. robinson
Behavior
The Common Jay is active throughout the day and constantly on the move; it rarely settles down. Its flight is swift and straight.When feeding from flowers, it never settles down, and keeps its wings vibrating. The males are seen mud-puddling, often in tight groups.
Habitat
Common in thick, riparian, moist, deciduous, semi-evergreen and evergreen forests.
Reproduction
The spherical and pale yellow eggs are laid singly on the underside of leaves.The caterpillar is somewhat spindle-shaped. The grown caterpillars have two forms, dark brown or grassy green. There are spines on the 4th segment which are short, conicle and blue-centered surrounded by lemmon yellow and then black rings. The osmeterium is pale bluish green. It is extruded only reluctantly.
Food
The caterpillars feed on plants of the families Annonaceae, Lauraceae, Magnoliaceae such as "Annona lawii", "Cinnamomum macrocarpum", "Magnolia grandiflora", "Michelia champaca", "Milliusa tomentosum" and "Polyalthia longifolia".References:
Some text fragments are auto parsed from Wikipedia.
