Various Stages of butterfly observed @ home
It will be a great surprise for anyone to observe the various stages of butterfly at home. Butterfly is one of the beautiful creation of God. All of us love it.
I have a garden in my terrace. There ....on a fine day I found a caterpillar.....
then I started capturing the development of that beautiful insect. Here are those developmental stages.....
Caterpillar:
Pupa:
Butterfly:
Pupa after releasing butterfly:
Two Butterflies :
Attractions for butterflies in the terrace :
How butterflies help our garden?
Protecting butterflies and fruitful gardening can be achieved simultaneously. Butterflies and many more friendly insects that helps in pollination are destroyed by harmful fertilizers. So natural farming is my solution. Always we should start with what is available. Depending upon my availability I started decomposing the uncooked wastes from the kitchen, dried leaves withered from my plants and produced COMPOST. I will explain in my future blog with pictures " How I Compost". Vegetables like radishes, ladies finger and sweet corn are produced with the help of air, soil, water, Sun, Compost and very importantly the friendly insects. Our friend Butterfly helps our garden. Without the help of them only least produce can be acheived. Let us protect the nature by farming naturally!!!
Plants that I grow to eat:
I grow Vegetables like Ladies finger(வெண்டை) , Radish(முள்ளங்கி) and also Sweet corn( சோளம்). Greens like Palak(பசலை), Drumstick(முருங்கை) , Ponnankanni(பொன்னாங்கன்னி) and so many herbs like Aruhampul (அருகம்புல்), Tulasi(துளசி) , Pudina(புதினா) , Adathodai( ஆடாதொடை), karpooravalli(கற்பூரவள்ளி), Mudakaruthan(முடக்கறுத்தான்) , Sundaikai(சுண்டைகாய்) , Pirandai(பிரண்டை) and Katralai(கற்றாழை) are also grown. Have added my cute Lady's finger plant and sweet Red Palak who could climb very well.
Hope you all enjoyed the various stages of butterfly and its uses. Now you know how to protect them thereby how vegetables can be grown.
Wish you all Happy Gardening...
