First Indian Butterfly Monitoring Scheme Programme for Pune

Happy to share that the first Programme of Indian Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (iBMS) was organized in Pune on 19th August 2023. The event was hosted by the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Indian Foundation for Butterflies along with local partners Butterflies of Pune group and Biodiversity Dept of Abasaheb Garware College.

Schedule included a butterfly monitoring and count walk at Vetal Tekdi (ARAI Hills) followed by a detailed discussion on how to gather and collate data. The Bangalore Butterfly Club’s monitoring experience of 12 years was shared during the discussion that helped understand how useful and important data gathering could be. The sessions were facilitated by Krushnamegh Kunte.

About 40 participants took part both in the walk and the post walk discussion at Biodiversity Dept.
The weather was good, five 30 minutes/time constraint counts were taken between 9:20 to 11:50 am on Vetal tekdi that documented about 30 butterfly species. Many were visiting or watching butterflies and their behaviour for the first time and many were inspired to continue counts for long term. 7 locations were shortlisted where participants expressed interest to continue butterfly monitoring on a long-term basis. These are Vetal Tekdi, Lohegaon, Sihagad, Pune University gardens, Tamhini, Bhimashankar, Fergusson College and KV No 1 and 2 Dehu Road.

The butterfly count:

1. Gull - 20+
2. Pioneer -4
3. Albatross- 10+
4. Psyche -4
5. Emigrant -2
6. Common Wanderer (male) - 1
7. Common Grass yellow - 2
8. Spotless grass yellow - 3
9. Indian jezebel- 1
10. Lemon pansy -8
11. Common Leopard - 5
12. Tawny coster - 1
13. Blue tiger - 1
14. Plain tiger -1
15. Striped tiger - 1
16. Danaid Eggfly (male)-1
17. Common mormon -1
18. Zebra blue-1
19. Common line blue-3
20. Tailless line blue-2
21. Babul blue sp-2
22. Lime blue-2
23. Common Pierrot-3
24. Flash sp-1
25. Common Silverline -1
26. Tiny grass blue-4
27. White orange tip- 8
28. Plain orange tip- 4
29. Little orange tip- 6
30. Slate flash-1
31. Red flash-1

Members are encouraged to take up monitoring in their local areas. A demonstration walk can be arranged if there is interest in monitoring. Volunteers are encouraged to join monitoring programmes already underway starting Sept 1st 2023. Please DM for more information.

For more information on Indian Butterfly Monitoring Programme (iBMS) follow, like and share: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ibms.butterfly

For queries on what is a time constraint count (30 minute count), why a time constraint count, how to do a time constraint count and more queries, do watch the videos here: https://ibms-network.in/resources-for-monitoring/

Please use this template to document regular counts: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ibms.butterfly/permalink/1785989425169492/

Publicado el agosto 25, 2023 04:51 TARDE por savita