Butterfly Watching the Tropics
November 22, 2009 - Posted in Pattaya Articles
Trip to the tropics, you meet a much greater variety of species of animals and plants, as seen in temperate zones. What this means, you will see many more types of birds, butterflies, flowers and at home. Fun to see the butterflies, in particular, to flit from flower to flower sipping nectar, and chase each other as part of an ad to dance. Tropical butterflies dazzle their extravagant and exotic colors, from dazzlingBlues in a kaleidoscope of colors.
Butterfly gardens are a popular tourist attraction for the public in a controlled environment, you meet a great variety of these beautiful insects and learn about their life history, including the election of the larvae (host) and plant nectar.
What I mean by that controlled environment that surrounds a fine mesh cloth, most of these gardens to protect gay people to escape and butterflies, think biggerPredators such as birds. Most of these companies have paid butterfly feeding stations and a closed growing space for the larvae of butterflies, larvae filled with host plant preference. Butterfly gardens proliferate particularly well as an eco-attraction in many tropical destinations
In Costa Rica, in particular, there are many butterfly gardens throughout the country. The most popular and largest butterfly garden are the La Paz Butterfly Observatory in La PazGardens, a butterfly garden and Monteverde Butterfly Botanical Gardens, Manuel Antonio. Are in Thailand, the butterfly garden is always very popular. In Phuket, Pattaya and Ko Samui, three locations on major destinations, such gardens were created. In the Mae Sa Valley, just outside of Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, many companies and even small orchid nurseries, butterfly gardens.
For me personally, while I love to visit the butterfly garden, which really makes meboth on the observation of butterflies in the wild, or someone in the private garden. In a garden setting to attract butterflies, must be a representative sample of butterflies favorite nectar plants and species-specific host plants planted in the garden. Usually butterfly nectar plants to attract pollinators such as different types of wasps and bees as well. And what makes the garden interesting is when it was set to winHummingbird in addition to seeds, eating and meat-eating birds. In the garden-speak this is what we call "a garden of wild animals.
In the mountains of northern Thailand, in the small market town of Chiang Dao, I have a friend who is the most beautiful private garden wildlife I've ever met in my travels. What makes this scenario is even more fascinating is not my friend, Khun Lek, consciously designing your own garden as such. Khun Lek Thai teak has a beautiful house in the middlea large tropical garden filled with a frog pond, fountains, pavilions and a selection of tropical plants, flowers and trees. And to sit on the outdoor terrace in a sunny morning, a cup of green tea and breakfast, Thai, while it is necessary to leave "The Show" in its garden, is a true experience.