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Yangmingshan Butterfly Season – Enjoy the Butterflies

Start: 7:30 p.m. 2006-06-04 End: 12:00 p.m. 2006-06-04 Host: Yangmingshan National Park Participants: public Venue: Shipai Battleship Rock Location: Front gate square at the Taiwan National Museum of History Registration: Not necessary Contact: Yangmingshan National Park Headquarters: 886-2-2861-6341 ext 800/801; Butterfly Conservation Society of Taiwan: 886-2-2881-4006 The Yangmingshan National Park 2006 Butterfly Dances program at Tsaoshan, co-hosted with the Butterfly Conservation Society of Taiwan, will be held on June 4, 11, 18, and 25. The purpose of this activity is to unlock curiosity in the participants. If you come, you will find out what miraculous mimicry fragile Spindasis lohita formosana and lycaenid butterflies use when facing their natural enemy. If you come, you will learn why the large, beautiful Parantica sita niphonica can ignore their natural enemy. If you come, you will also learn why butterfly larvae will only eat certain types of food.