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

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 Leea Rubra Naturally extinct Available commercially Beautiful plant :D Common tit Leopard lacewing

14. FOOD PLANTS Lantana camara Orange emigrant Cycad blue

15. FOOD PLANTS Duranta repends Asystasia sp Costus sp 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 Caesalpinia sp Common grass yellow

19. HOST PLANTS Wild flowers Cleome rutidosperma Ruelia repens Chocolate pansy Peacock pansy Striped albatross Autumn leaf Blue pansy Great eggfly Jacintha eggfly Asystasia gangetica

20. HOST PLANTS Passiflora foetida Leopard lacewing Tawny coster

21. HOST PLANTS Senna sp Caterpillars Lemon emigrant Mattled emigrant Orange emigrant Senna alata Senna speetabilis

22. HOST PLANTS Lime butterfly and common mormon Lime butterfly Common mormon Curry leaf Citrus Clausena

23. 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

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