butterfly park
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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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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S E L E TA R C O U N T RY C LU B 1 2 / 0 8 / 2 0 1 4
BUTTERFLY PARK
Nature Society :)
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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
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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.
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• 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
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• 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
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A LIVING GARDEN
• Oviposting• Painted jezebel• Leopard lacewing• Plain tiger• Tawny coster
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CATERPILLARS
• Leopard lacewing• Painted jezebel• Blue glassy tiger• Green baron• Common birdwing• Blue pansy
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PUPAE :)
• Dark glassy tiger• Common rose• Leopard lacewing• Tawny coster• Common mime• Common birdwing
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ECLOSION
• Painted jezebel• Tailed jay• Tawny coster
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FOOD PLANTS
• String bush• Common bluebottle• Blue pansy• Tiger moths• Chocolate albatross
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FOOD PLANTS
• Snakeweed• Common mormon• Motted emigrant• Olive-backed sunbird• Yellow palm dart
• Attracts birds too! ^~^
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FOOD PLANTS
• Bidens species• Invasive • Wild look• Provides shelter for butterflies
• Leopard• Common tiger• Small branded swift• Tawny coster
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FOOD PLANTS
• Leea Rubra• Naturally extinct• Available commercially• Beautiful plant :D
• Common tit• Leopard lacewing
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FOOD PLANTS
• Lantana camara• Orange emigrant• Cycad blue
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FOOD PLANTS
• Duranta repends• Asystasia sp• Costus sp• Bauhinia kockiana
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FOOD PLANTS
• Non-flowering plants• Striped blue crow: false dill• Plain plush blue: rose of india
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FOOD/ HOST PLANTS
• Crotalaria sp• Pea blue• Dark glassy tiger• Common tiger
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FOOD/ HOST PLANTS
• Caesalpinia sp• Common grass yellow
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HOST PLANTS
• Wild flowers• Cleome rutidosperma• Ruelia repens• Chocolate pansy• Peacock pansy• Striped albatross• Autumn leaf• Blue pansy• Great eggfly• Jacintha eggfly• Asystasia gangetica
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HOST PLANTS
• Passiflora foetida• Leopard lacewing• Tawny coster
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HOST PLANTS
• Senna sp• Caterpillars• Lemon emigrant• Mattled emigrant• Orange emigrant• Senna alata• Senna speetabilis
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HOST PLANTS
• Lime butterfly and common mormon• Lime butterfly• Common mormon• Curry leaf• Citrus• Clausena
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HOST PLANTS
• Plain tiger• Asclepias curassavica• Calotropis gigantea
• Within a month of planting, butterflies will come• However unable to sustain population with only
one plant• To maintain a sustainable population, plant
calotropis gigantea
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INCREASING POPULATION
• Rearing indoors• Netting whole plant• Netting branch
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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
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