FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1991
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HK TO SET UP INSECT HOUSE
RESIDENTS
INSECTS WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT INSECT HOUSE IN HONG KONG'S FIRST NATURE EDUCATION CENTRE IS THE DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES, DR LAWRENCE LEE, TODAY (FRIDAY).
THE UP,
WHEN
SET
SAID
HONG KONG
AND
ALSO BECAUSE LOSS OF
ADDRESSING A LUNCHEON MEETING OF THE LIONS CLUB OF ISLAND, DR LEE SAID THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INSECT HOUSE WOULD PREVENT SOME INSECT SPECIES FROM SINKING INTO OBLIVION JUST THEY
IN NUMBERS OWING TO URBANISATION WERE DECLINING NATURAL HABITATS.
THE LIONS
SAI
KUNG,
SITE IN WILL IT IS
INSECT HOUSE, WHICH STANDS ON A 480-SQUARE-METRE
EDUCATION NATURE THE
CENTRE IN TSIU HANG, COMPRISE AN EXHIBITION HALL, A NET HOUSE AND A GREEN HOUSE. ESTIMATED TO COST ABOUT $2.5 MILLION.
INSECT LIVE
THE "APART FROM
ANNOTATED DISPLAY OF
OF HUNDREDS SPECIMENS CAUGHT LOCALLY, VISITORS WILL BE ABLE TO WATCH CLOSELY SPECIMENS IN A NATURAL ENVIRONMENT INSIDE THE GREEN HOUSE AND THE HOUSE," DR LEE SAII),
"INTERESTED RESIDENTS WILL THEN HAVE A FAIR IDEA OF WHICH BENEFICIAL INSECTS, WHICH ARE INJURIOUS PESTS, WHICH CAN BE USED
HE CONTINUED. MEDICINE AND WHICH ARE OF ECONOMIC VALUE,
APART FROM
MOST INSECTS ARE THE MAN,
SUCCESSFUL ANIMALS ON EARTH AND OVER ONE MILLION SPECIES HAVE BEEN MANY MORE TO BE ADDED, ACCORDING TO DR LER.
NET
ARE
FOR
GROUP NAMED WITH
OF
IN HONG KONG, OVER 2,100 INSECT SPECIES HAVE BEEN
200 SPECIES SOME AMONG THEM ARE SOME 500 SPECIES OF BEETLES, BUTTERFLIES AND NEARLY 100 SPECIES OF MOTHS.
IDENTIFIED.
OF
ADULT
HE ELABORATED ON THE INTERESTING CHARACTERISTICS OF SOME OF THE GREATLY INSECT SPECIES, INCLUDING THE DIVING BEETLE WHOSE NUMBER HAS DECLINED IN RECENT YEARS OWING TO THE LACK OF PADDY FIELDS, THE MAYFLY WHICH HAS ONLY ABOUT ONE DAY'S LIFE, THE APHID WHICH IS PROLIFIC AND SENSITIVE TO LIGHT, THE COMMON CROW BUTTERFLY WHOSE
LARVA LIKES LOOKS LIKE A GOLDEN PEANUT AND THE BANANA SKIPPER WHOSE TO ROLL ITSELF VP IN BANANA LEAVES.
HIGHLY
PUPA
**THE STUDY OF INSETS IS AN IMPORTANT THEME IN NATURE EDUCATION AND KNOWING MORE ABOUT INSECTS IS INSTRUMENTAL TO BETTER PEST CONTROL, CONSERVATION, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
"1 BELIEVE THE INSECT HOUSE WILL MAKE VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION DR LEE CONCLUDED. THE PROMOTION OF NATURE EDUCATION IN HONG KONG,
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/THE LIONS