Butterfly Survey 8

Today marks a milestone - we spotted a pupa on a plant in Dhoby Ghaut Green, the garden in which we have been conducting our butterfly surveys, and we have (sort of) adopted.

While we have seen many caterpillars in the garden, this is our first pupa so far.

We spotted a pupa on the the Pseuderanthemum reticulum plant!

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Butterfly Survey 6 & 7

Recently, we have spotted the Orange Emigrant butterfly while conducting our survey. The Painted Jezebel butterflies are back too; they have been mysterious absent from our previous few butterfly surveys.

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Repotting Part 3 & Butterfly Survey 5

This was our third phase of our repotting project, and we are pleased to say that our garden is making lovely progress.

Apart from that, we added strong poles as suport for some of the younger and weaker crownflower plants so that they will grow straight. In a few weeks time, they will be strong enough that they won't require the poles, but until then, they are vulnerable to being knocked over by the regular winds and rain prevalent in our climate.

Afterwards, we went to conduct our butterfly survey. Due to the impending rain and the weather, there were not many butterflies, but it was indeed interesting to see the garden in a different mood, with all the insects getting ready to take cover from the strong rain.

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