Question : Green Baron

From :Doreen

Hi,
Is this sighting of a Green Baron (please correct me if I am wrong) any interest to the Butterfly Group? At around noon on 22 Dec last year, the butterfly visited my garden at XXXXX. The butterfly had its proboscis in the crack for quite a while. Can't tell what it was consuming.

Regards,
NSS member

From ButterflyGuys
Doreen,Thanks for sharing with us your sighting of the female Green Baron. The GB is not a common butterfly so it is great that you sighted one at your garden near Bukit Batok Park. The butterfly was probably imbibing liquids and minerals from ground. The caterpillar of this butterfly feeds on leaves of a type of Mistletoe.

QUESTION : Enquiry on Plain Nawab (Butterfly)

From : Yeo
Hi,
I would need your help to direct this email who has knowledge about the below spiece of butterfly, Expert Insight website.

Common Name : Plain Nawab
Scientific Name: Polyura hebe plautus
Family : Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Charaxinae
Discovered by : Butler in 1866 (the species ‘hebe’) and Fruhstorfer in 1898 (the subspecies ‘plautus’)
Polymorphism : No

I currently have 3 chysalis and 1 i the 5th Instar stage at my home. I found them during a walk in XXXX on the Red Saga plant which is still a young short plant. I think they should emerged into butterflies in another 10 days time. I would like to ensure their survival and I would like to know if I need to release them back to the hosting plant, Red Saga or just in the garden where there is abundance of flowering plants?

I would really appreciate it if you could advise me on this.

Thank you.
Regards
Yeo

From The Butterfly Guys
Dear Yeo,
In general, you should release them back to the place where you found the pupae. Releasing them in a garden with abundance of flowering plants could be a last resort provided the garden is near a well wooded park with Saga plants.

Regards
BG