Authors : A. Hussainkhan
Page Nos : 203-215
Description :
Abstract:
Nectar hosting plants and their visiting butterflies species diversity have been studied in an area of 7acresNandanvan of Tah.Sironcha ,Dist.Gadchiroli. In which the 35 species of butterflies from five families that is, Papilionidae(4), Pieridae (10),Nymphalidae (9), Lycaenidae (10), and Hesperiidae(2)were recorded during the course of study. In this a total of 20 nectar host plants were recorded which is belonging to 8 families; in this 11 were herbs, 3 were shrubs, and 1 trees .Visits of butterflies were more frequent to flower with the tubular corollas than to non-tubular, to flowerof herbs and shrubs rather than tree, to flowers coloured yellow and red rather than white and pink. In this study we proved that the herbaceous nectar plant species richness is very important for the support of adult butterfly species maintenance. Therefore, the maintenance and the management of herbaceous plant species are most important for conservation of butterfly diversity in an area like SironchaTah.
Keywords: Sironcha, Nandanvan, resources, nectar plants, diversity, plant structure.
