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The butterfly effect
Updated On: 31 December, 2019 08:45 AM IST | Mumbai | Karishma Kuenzang
A city-based naturalist hosts a day-long session to help you learn to raise butterflies at home

The butterfly effect
If you've been fascinated with butterflies or have wondered what attracts them to certain plants, this workshop by naturalist Priyanka Kumari, who helms the naturalists' group Green Hope, will offer a crash course on how to create a butterfly garden in your backyard or balcony.
Kumari, who left her corporate job to pursue her curiosity for the elements of nature, will be teaching enthusiasts about the entire lifecycle of a butterfly, which kinds of plants may be used to breed them and how to distinguish between moths and butterflies when they are still caterpillars. "Papilio polytes are the most common variants found in the city. You can figure out the male and female from the pattern of rings on their wings. Then there's Talicada nyseus or red pierrot, blue tiger, plain tiger and striped tiger butterfly, which you can find here," she informs.
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