Largest butterfly farm in southeast Asia

NB: TRUE DATE CREATED = 26/12/2004 1. Various of butterfly statue 2. Sign (in Bahasa Indonesia): "Butterfly garden Bali" 3. Visitors entering butterfly garden 4. Butterfly on neck of visitor, pan as another visitor lifts it off 5. Various of butterflies 6. Butterfly egg on leaf 7. Caterpillar 8. Pan of rows of pupae (butterflies before they are fully developed) 9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hanny (no last name given), Visitor from the Netherlands: "The interesting point is to see the butterflies very close by and also to see here in this special place how they grow and how they are first in a cocoon and then when they come out of the cocoon it''s very beautiful. I''ve never seen it this way." 10. Close up of butterfly on visitor''s hand 11. SOUNDBITE: (Bahasa Indonesia) Putu Usada, Garden Officer: "The proliferation of the butterfly really depends on the weather. During the dry and rainy season only 70 percent of the cocoons will succeed and become butterflies." 12. Various of visitors looking at butterflies STORYLINE: Tourists and locals on the Indonesian island of Bali have been admiring the fragile beauty of nature at the biggest butterfly garden in Southeast Asia. Butterflies are bred and studied at the 35 hectare (86 acre) garden, which was built in 1996. Visitors from all over the world come to the gardens to see the life cycle of the butterfly, from egg, to caterpillar (or larva), to chrysalis (or pupa), to beautiful winged adult. The visitors said they liked the garden because they could see the butterflies up close and watch the different stages of the insects'' metamorphosis. There are 250 butterflies in the garden from 20 different species. Among them are troides helena (birdwing butterfly), popilio polytes (common mormon butterfly) and popilio memnon (swallowtail butterfly). Adult butterflies have a short life span, sometimes living for as little as a week. During this time they can lay up to 200 eggs, but only about 10 percent of these hatch successfully. Every month, staff at the gardens release some of the butterflies back into their natural habitat. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/1badf4e20bc9c87641395cb666659cee Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork