Like bees, butterflies are also crucial in pollination. | Rhett A Butler / Mongabay
Colourful and delicate, butterflies are not only beautiful creatures but also play an essential role in the food chain as well as being indicators of the ecosystem.
Of late, butterfly parks are emerging as a new trend with recent ones coming up in cities like Bhopal and Indore in Madhya Pradesh. States like Karnataka, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Bangalore, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh already have many such parks.
“Around three dozen species including butterflies like blue tiger, plain tiger, striped tiger, common banded awl can be seen in our park,” said AK Jain, deputy director of Van Vihar National Park, Bhopal. “We wanted to make people aware of butterfly conservation. We also encourage our visitors to plant nectar and host plants to attract butterflies in their backyard. We prepared a leaflet containing all the information.”
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New UK strain threat: India to begin genome sequencing of genes of 5% Covid +ve samples
The National Task Force on Covid-19 has recommended that as part of âprospective surveillanceâ, 5% of positive cases from all states and UTs be tested for whole-genome sequencing to check for the presence of the âUK strainâ that is seen to have a higher degree of infectiousness.
The moves come weeks after the UK found a variant with an unusually high number of changes, including some that are believed to make the virus 56%-70% more transmissible. The new strain is yet not known to cause more severe disease or make the current class of vaccines ineffective.
We will have to impose stricter and new Covid 19 guidelines based on the report from the Union ministry and task committee members here in the state,” Dr Sudhakar said.
Bengaluru, Dec 26 : Karnataka Health Minister K Sudhakar on Saturday said that 14 of the 2,500 passengers who returned from the UK since November 25 had
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