SELETAR COUNTRY CLUB 12/08/2014 BUTTERFLY PARK Nature Society :)

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BUTTERFLY PARK

Nature Society :)

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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

A LIVING GARDEN

• Oviposting• Painted jezebel• Leopard lacewing• Plain tiger• Tawny coster

CATERPILLARS

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

PUPAE :)

• Dark glassy tiger• Common rose• Leopard lacewing• Tawny coster• Common mime• Common birdwing

ECLOSION

• Painted jezebel• Tailed jay• Tawny coster

FOOD PLANTS

• String bush• Common bluebottle• Blue pansy• Tiger moths• Chocolate albatross

FOOD PLANTS

• Snakeweed• Common mormon• Motted emigrant• Olive-backed sunbird• Yellow palm dart

• Attracts birds too! ^~^

FOOD PLANTS

• Bidens species• Invasive • Wild look• Provides shelter for butterflies

• Leopard• Common tiger• Small branded swift• Tawny coster

FOOD PLANTS

• Leea Rubra• Naturally extinct• Available commercially• Beautiful plant :D

• Common tit• Leopard lacewing

FOOD PLANTS

• Lantana camara• Orange emigrant• Cycad blue

FOOD PLANTS

• Duranta repends• Asystasia sp• Costus sp• Bauhinia kockiana

FOOD PLANTS

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

FOOD/ HOST PLANTS

• Crotalaria sp• Pea blue• Dark glassy tiger• Common tiger

FOOD/ HOST PLANTS

• Caesalpinia sp• Common grass yellow

HOST PLANTS

• Wild flowers• Cleome rutidosperma• Ruelia repens• Chocolate pansy• Peacock pansy• Striped albatross• Autumn leaf• Blue pansy• Great eggfly• Jacintha eggfly• Asystasia gangetica

HOST PLANTS

• Passiflora foetida• Leopard lacewing• Tawny coster

HOST PLANTS

• Senna sp• Caterpillars• Lemon emigrant• Mattled emigrant• Orange emigrant• Senna alata• Senna speetabilis

HOST PLANTS

• Lime butterfly and common mormon• Lime butterfly• Common mormon• Curry leaf• Citrus• Clausena

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

INCREASING POPULATION

• Rearing indoors• Netting whole plant• Netting branch

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