Dear Kisan Your absolutely right and what you say about 32 species were bred in captive condition and were successfully released in main doom over a period of 2 years during 2005 to 2007.My self and our team members made lot of effort for this work,since i ahd been their in this park for the period of 3 years from beaning of park. I think it may required some experience and good personals for this park Devaraj
--- On Tue, 16/11/10, Kishen Das <[email protected]> wrote: From: Kishen Das <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Bannerghatta butterfly park To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, 16 November, 2010, 11:29 PM I was basically talking about "Staineyar Red Tarret" and they also claim that "Malabar Spotted Flat" and "Southern Duffer" are missing !!! Btw all this while I believed that the butterflies are home grown with the help of local farmers. So I have been using the example of this park in my presentations to show how such a park can be beneficial to both Butterflies and Human beings. If indeed the story of catching the butterflies outside and freeing them inside the park is true, then the entire program is complete sham. I know that Dr. K. Chandrashekara's ( GKVK, Entomology Department, Bangalore) students have developed protocols for in-house breeding for around 32 species by 2008. I have seen hundreds of life cycles of these species in his lab. Somehow they were not able to get the ever-green species to puddle and court, so were unsuccessful to breed them. And of course, many generations were wiped out by microbial infections. So, the park was supposed to use these protocols and breed n release the butterflies inside the main doom. Probably people in this group, who have worked more closely with the park might clarify. Kishen On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:36 AM, davy shilton <[email protected]> wrote: I visited it last month and saw plenty of common rose Davy From: ajith u <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 16 November, 2010 6:17:22 PM Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Bannerghatta butterfly park I am keep on visiting butterfly park in bannerghatta for past 2 years, and found that some of the butterflies are missing. What i noticed is 1.Blue mormons 2.Red Helen 3. All Roses are missing. Also noticed that the number of Signature spiders are increased inside the park and the number of butterflies are reduced. When I asked about Blue mormons they were saying its not the season..but for the last 1 year i didnt see any. Last blue mormon I saw is here http://www.flickr.com/photos/uajith_set1/2913334539/ I found more butteflies outside the park rather than inside. also it seen that , the so called gardeners and care takers usually capture butterflies from out side and put them inside the park. On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Kishen Das <[email protected]> wrote: Yet another example of why one should not believe the media for their utter rubbish - http://www.bangaloremirror.com/article/10/2010111220101112080956352703fc5dc/Butterflies-kiss-Bannerghatta-goodbye.html Kishen -- ######################## Ajith Bangalore. +919900477887 Photo album : http://www.flickr.com/photos/uajith_set1 ######################## -- Enjoy
