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    Butterfly Activity in a Residential Garden

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    Authors
    Young, Christopher
    Issue Date
    2008
    
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    Abstract
    Butterflies are a highly visible, well-loved, and well-studied part of Britain's native fauna, yet there is still very little known about how butterflies use one of the country's most commonly available habitats, the residential garden. Studies in a Wolverhampton (UK) garden demonstrate that the majority of individuals use these spaces as movement routes through the urban matrix. Of 516 observed individual visits by butterflies over three recording seasons (2000–2002), only 13.8% involved a stop for some purpose. The duration of these visits was characteristically short, with a mean visit time of nine seconds. Individuals tended to fly through the study garden using distinct entry and exit points largely dictated by variations in structure within the study garden and in the immediately surrounding gardens. Individual garden use by butterflies would therefore seem to be defined as much by structural imperatives as by availability of nectar- or food-plant species. When considered as systems of interconnected green spaces on the level of the housing block (defined as a continuous area of residential land use bounded by infrastructure or contrasting land uses) and of the urban area as a whole, residential gardens represent an extraordinarily valuable and dynamic component of the urban habitat.
    Citation
    Urban Habitats, 5 (May 2008).
    Publisher
    Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
    Journal
    Urban Habitats
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/2436/29675
    Additional Links
    http://www.urbanhabitats.org/v05n01/butterfly_full.html
    Type
    Journal article
    Language
    en
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    ISSN
    1541-7115
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