Tuesday, July 18, 2006
House of butterflies
By Tony Ajero
THERE is now a butterfly house less than 15 minutes away from City Hall and most places in the city center.
This butterfly house, which had a "soft opening" to the public last Saturday, is located near the Davao Crocodile Park at the Riverfront Corporate City along Diversion Road in Barangay Ma-a, Davao City.
It is the latest project of Sonny, the visionary son of agro-industrialist Francisco "Don Paco" Dizon.
Butterflies are another indication of how man takes care of Mother Nature, which indubitably holds the secrets of his continued survival on earth. The butterfly house is ideal for children's early education on natural resources in order to cultivate their love and care for the environment, without which the world will self-destruct.
Asked about the economic value of raising butterflies, Sonny Dizon did not discount the possibility of exporting butterflies to temperate countries, where people are crazy about butterflies but would prefer to import them due to the prohibit cost of raising them right in their countries.
The butterfly house is just three months old into raising butterflies, but already it is getting several inquiries about the price of butterflies for wedding ceremonies and pupae for raising pet butterflies.
"Right now our concern is propagating the host (food) plants for the 18 species from Palawan and Marinduque we are initially raising," says John Nono, the butterfly breeder.
Indeed, the butterfly house has a long, long way to go considering that the world has a total of 140,000 species of butterflies.
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