1 / 29

Butterfly Park

Butterfly Park. Nature Society :). Seletar country club 12/08/2014. Why Butterflies?. Beautiful and visible Learning Centre Hands-on experiences on care for Nature A living garden Where we can get close to nature and appreciate its wonders. Understanding butterflies.

gerd
Download Presentation

Butterfly Park

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Butterfly Park Nature Society :) Seletar country club 12/08/2014

  2. Why Butterflies? • Beautiful and visible • Learning Centre • Hands-on experiences on care for Nature • A living garden • Where we can get close to nature and appreciate its wonders

  3. Understanding butterflies • Food plants for adults • High nectar flowering plants • Host plants for larvae • Specialized plants • Popular Misconception: Butterflies destroy plants. • Not true. Caterpillars are very picky eaters. They will feed only on leaves of a particular host plants and nothing else.

  4. 1. Attract butterflies from the surroundings • High nectar flowering plants buffet table • 2. Increase population of existing species • Plant additional host plants • Rear caterpillars/ caterpillars sanctuary • 3. Introduce new species • Plant new host plants • Caterpillars/ plants exchange • Green spaces: scenic, but little biodiversity  increased by introduction of insects

  5. 86 species feeding • Eg. common tiger, green baron, common birdwing, common rose • 36 species breeding • Eg. lime butterfly, lesser grass blue, yellow palm dart, pea blue • Best time to look at butterflies: 9-10 am • Unless there is rain :)  weather is not as hot

  6. A living garden • Oviposting • Painted jezebel • Leopard lacewing • Plain tiger • Tawny coster

  7. caterpillars • Leopard lacewing • Painted jezebel • Blue glassy tiger • Green baron • Common birdwing • Blue pansy

  8. Pupae :) • Dark glassy tiger • Common rose • Leopard lacewing • Tawny coster • Common mime • Common birdwing

  9. eclosion • Painted jezebel • Tailed jay • Tawny coster

  10. Food plants • String bush • Common bluebottle • Blue pansy • Tiger moths • Chocolate albatross

  11. Food plants • Snakeweed • Common mormon • Motted emigrant • Olive-backed sunbird • Yellow palm dart • Attracts birds too! ^~^

  12. Food plants • Bidens species • Invasive • Wild look • Provides shelter for butterflies • Leopard • Common tiger • Small branded swift • Tawny coster

  13. Food plants • LeeaRubra • Naturally extinct • Available commercially • Beautiful plant :D • Common tit • Leopard lacewing

  14. Food plants • Lantana camara • Orange emigrant • Cycad blue

  15. Food plants • Durantarepends • Asystasiasp • Costussp • Bauhinia kockiana

  16. Food plants • Non-flowering plants • Striped blue crow: false dill • Plain plush blue: rose of india

  17. food/ host plants • Crotalaria sp • Pea blue • Dark glassy tiger • Common tiger

  18. Food/ host plants • Caesalpiniasp • Common grass yellow

  19. Host plants • Wild flowers • Cleome rutidosperma • Rueliarepens • Chocolate pansy • Peacock pansy • Striped albatross • Autumn leaf • Blue pansy • Great eggfly • Jacinthaeggfly • Asystasiagangetica

  20. Host plants • Passiflorafoetida • Leopard lacewing • Tawny coster

  21. Host plants • Sennasp • Caterpillars • Lemon emigrant • Mattled emigrant • Orange emigrant • Sennaalata • Sennaspeetabilis

  22. Host plants • Lime butterfly and common mormon • Lime butterfly • Common mormon • Curry leaf • Citrus • Clausena

  23. Host plants • Plain tiger • Asclepiascurassavica • Calotropisgigantea • Within a month of planting, butterflies will come • However unable to sustain population with only one plant • To maintain a sustainable population, plant calotropisgigantea

  24. Increasing population • Rearing indoors • Netting whole plant • Netting branch

  25. pointers • Most host plants are poisonous • Butterflies are seasonal • Survival rates of eggs/ caterpillars/ pupae very low • Caterpillars only found on host plants • Pupae difficult to find • Butterfly watch: between 9:00 to 12:00 • Resources • NSS iPhone app • Butterfly of Singapore • ButterflyCircle

More Related