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Why to visit Ovalekar Butterfly Garden
In Ovale Village, Thane, Maharashtra, the Ovalekar Wadi Butterfly Garden is located. Over 500 species of butterflies can be found in the park. Over 80 different plant species provide nectar or breeding opportunities for butterflies. Because the butterflies migrate from October to December and then again from April to June, these are the greatest months to go. Butterfly species such as the Gaudy Baron, Striped Tiger, Swordtail, Bluebottle, Commander, Common Crow, Wanderer, Crimson Rose, Monkey Puzzle, and Grass Demon thrive in the park.
History of the Butterfly Garden :
The Ovalekar Wadi Butterfly Park is a farm in Thane owned by the Wadi family. They cultivated paddy in the 2-acre field. Unfortunately, the land dried up, and the farming ceased, leaving the farm as a bleak brown patch of ground.
Rajendra Ovalekar, the Wadi's youngest son, was offered a job teaching at a school in Thane, but his love of nature saved him from selling the farm. He went to a Breakfast and Butterflies session put on by the Bombay Natural History Society in Mumbai in 2004. That's when he had the idea to turn the farm into a butterfly sanctuary. He started from the ground up, planting almost 5,000 plants, including at least 180 species that provided nectar or breeding opportunities for butterflies.
