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It was inaugurated on April 22, 2001, as part of the Earth Day activities for Earth Day. The garden is a closed space where the optimal ecosystem for butterfly reproduction has been recreated. The Vvisitors can watch the butterflies fly, feed and observe the amazing life cycle from egg, larva, and cocoon up to adult butterfly.
This Casa Pueblo’s initiative of Casa Pueblo has required a lot of effort where from individual and colleca combination of individual and collective forcestive efforts combined. Arduous Extensive studies, investigations with a lot of effort, and dedication and perseverance have accomplished this beautiful sensitivity and scientific and aesthetic project for Puerto Rico. The garden is distinguished by its nectar and host plants which that are indispensable for the complete life cycle of the butterflyy’s life cycle completion. The Other highlights are include a path, pool and an ecological river stone structure that adds another dimension for of esthetics and culture. The sculpture was completed by Francisco Perez, Puerto Rican sculptor and professor of California State University at San Francisco.
Through volunteer work of Casa Pueblo’s members, this Puerto Rican butterfly habitat was constructed. This educational and research project is part of the wild life management plan that our communitarian group of Adjuntas completes in Pueblo Forest.
It has as an additional objective to reproduce and sow nectar and host plants in the forest reserve, formely a mining zone before, with the purpose of creatingin order to create the best conditions to augment Lepidoptera populations which that are on the brink of extinction.
It also tries to involve the Adjuntas’ and Puerto Rican communitiesy and childhood youth so that they can contribute to good butterfly population- management in every place they live.
In the majority of many old ancient cultures, butterflies where considered to beas messengers from of the gods. It was so becausePerhaps this was so because they might have understood the butterflies’ role in life on Earth, something that nowadays is not often done in modern times. They studied and learned aboutof their butterflies’ role in plant pollination, on which is the key for theirthey depend for survival. You can see their intelligence in thisFrom this, their intelligence. They observed their beautiful colors and splendid flight and here you can see theirFrom this, their sensitivity and culture.
They also knew that their fragility is not a synonym forof weakness. In fact, butterflies are contemporariesy with the extinctof dinosaurs, animals of immense size and power that went extinct; but butterflies did not. They demonstrate the principle of Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution principle of the most adapted species survivalthat those individuals that are most adaptable survive, not those with the most strength. This lesson could be resembled toA lesson that could similarly apply to the victorious fight that stopped mining in Adjuntas, Utuado and Lares or to the fight for the naval base withdrawal of the naval base from in Vieques and reachso that it reach its freedom.
Before flying, butterflies undergo a mysterious process called metamorphosis. It consists of four stages: egg, larva, cocoon and adult butterfly.
Before laying their eggs, butterflies must mate. A beautiful flight waltz serves as courtship. They Female butterflies generally lay from 100 to 400 male fertilized eggs, once fertilized by the male. Each butterfly species lays its eggs on the new leafs of a special specific plant. ThisIt is called the host plant and no other plant will serve. These same plants will serve as food for the larvae once they hatch. Some plants are Passiflora, Senna bicapsularis, Asclepia curasavica and orange.
... their wings, eyes, mouth and way of walking [up]
Lepidoptera, or butterflies in scientific language, aAmong their main characteristics of Lepidoptera, the scientific name for butterflies, areis their four scale- covered wings with brilliant and beautiful colors. It is distinguished. They are also marked by its two big compound eyes made up of thousands of lenses which that allow the butterfliesit to see in all directions, and detect color and ultraviolet rays. Their mouth apparatus, called a spiral trump, is in the shape of a rolled straw through which they suck the plant’s nectar called spiral trump. And although theyit seems to have sixteen (16) legs in the larval stage, it they only has have six (6) walking legs. These have the great capacity to detect food when it walks overwalking over it. Something spectacular are the long and sensitive antennae on their heads. ThroughWith them they can hear, smell, and taste, which allows them to fly in the direction where food is found.
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