Butterfly World

Stay near me ... do not take thy flight!

- William Wordsworth

There are about 16,000 recorded species of butterflies in the world; among them, 1,300 species can be found in China. Hong Kong has 235 species. According to John Tse of the Medicine Facultys Laboratory Animal Services Centre, about 80 butterfly species have been observed on the CUHK campus and more than 70 of them are digitally recorded. If you want to see butterflies, you can go to the nursery of the Landscape Section near Ming Wah Tang or the area around Weiyuan Lake and the brook by the side of the Chung Chi chapel, anytime throughout the year except January and February. Before you go, you may first take a look at these fascinating photographs taken by John, a butterfly aficionado.
Reference: http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/green/butterfly/en/index.php

Pale Awlet Bibasis gomata	Great Mormon Papilio memnon	Common Mormon Papilio polytes	Lemon Emigrant Catopsilia Pomona
Great Orange Tip Hebomoia glaucippe	Common Grass Yellow Eurema hecabe	Red-based Jezebel Delias pasithoe	Indian Cabbage White Pieris canidia
Common Bluebottle Graphium sorpedon	Common Hedge Blue Acytolepis puspa	Pale Grass Blue Zizeeria maha	Paris Peacock Papilio paris
Mottled Emigrant Catopsilia pyranthe	Lesser Forest Blue Taraka hamada	Common Mine Chilasa clytia	Water Snow Flat Tagiades litigiosus
Common Straight Swift Parnara guttata pyranthe	Contiguous Swift Polytremis lubricans	Red Helen Papilio helenus	Transparent Six-line Blue Nacaduba kurava
Silver Streak Blue Iraota timoleon	Punchinello Zemeros flegyas	Plum Judy Abisara echerius	Common Palmfly Elymnias hypermnestra
Banded Tree Brown Lethe confuse