So we had our bubble tea sale today, a fundraiser that we also hope will generate interest in our project amongst our school.At 6:50AM, we collected the bubble tea from the Dunman school vendor. There were 250 cups, the entirety of which we managed to sell.
Below is a photo of us after fundraising, counting the money we made:
In total, we made a profit of about $200, to be used to buy more butterfly host and nectar plants for our school garden.
During the CmPS meeting with Mrs Lee, we were thinking of other more prominent alternative locations for the expansion of our butterfly garden, and one suggestion was the shelves of plants in between the KS Chee Theatre and the canteen. We checked on our garden and were happy to find about twelve caterpillars on one plant. We think that the caterpillars are the young of the Plain Tiger butterfly, but we are not sure, hence we plan to email photos to Mr Anuj to check.
Sadly, there are aphids on most of the bloodflower plants, too many to cut off. The temporary measure of wiping majority of them off was taken, but we plan to find an eco-friendly spray that will get rid of the aphids more or less permanently, so that they will not harm our plants.
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| Caterpillars of the Plain Tiger butterfly on a Blood Flower plant |
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| A Plain Tiger feeding from the flower of the Blood Flower Plant |
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| More caterpillars. Notice the small orange caterpillar |
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| More more caterpillars. |
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| The small yellow specks on the stalks of the flowers are the aphids. They're on most of the Blood Flower plants. |
