RANGESH KANNAN - ROLE AS BUTTERFLY CONSERVATOR IN THE AMERICAN COLLEGE, MADURAI
FOR MY M.SC DISSERTATION, I CHOSE MY PROJECT WORK ON BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION. PROF. MRS. E. JOY SHARMILA WAS MY GUIDE & SUPERVISOR FOR M.SC DISSERTATION. MADAM HAS UGC (UNIVERSITY GRANT COMMISSION) PROJECT ON STUDIES ON BUTTERFLIES. I LEARNED WHAT IS RESEARCH DURING THE DISSERATION. I DID NOT KNOW WHAT IS RSEARCH, PRESENTATION, PUBLICATION AND REPORT WRITING. BUT SLOWLY I LEARN ABOUT ESSENTIALS IN RESEARCH AS I WAS A SLOW LEARNER.
I WAS ROUTINELY ENUMERATING BUTTERFLY IN THE AMERICAN COLLEGE, MADURAI AND DIVIDED INTO 2 SITES BASED ON THE HOST PLANTS MURRAYA KOENIGII. I REGULARLY SURVEYED BUTTERFLY POPULATION DYNAMICS. JOY MAM TOLD ME TO DO CAPTIVE BREEDING EXPERIMENT ON COMMON MORMON BUTTERFLY. ALONGWITH THE POPULATION DYNAMICS STUDY, I SIMULTANEOUSLY DID CAPTIVE BREEDING STUDIES. INITIALLY I STARTED WITH ONE PAIR OF MALE & FEMALE BUTTERFLY. WITH THE AD LIBITUM OF NECTAR SOURCES, THE BUTTERFLY COULD ABLE TO GROW VERY WELL AND REPRODUCE THEIR YOUNGONES. THEIR EGGS LOOK LIKE YELLOW BULB BUT WAS AS VERY TINY AS KITCHEN MUSTARD. WE DID THREE REPLICATES OF EXPERIMENT AND GOT ASTONISHED RESULTS THAT BUTTERFLY CAN LAY 100 EGGS WITH 93 % SURVIVAL RATE.
THIS WAS REALLY MARVELLOUS RESULTS COMPARE TO WILD CONDITION WHERE 3% OF THE SURVIVAL RATE AFTER PREDATION, ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE AND PHYSICAL PARAMETERS.
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JOY MAM MOTIVATED ME TO PRESENT MY WORK IN NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION CONDUCTED BY ST.XAVIERS COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCE, PALAYANKOTTAI. I PARTICPATED IN CONFERENCE AND WON SECOND PRIZE FOR MY ORAL PRSENTATION. I SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED POST GRADUATE UPTO VIVA THEN I LOOKED FOR Ph.D RESEARCH IN MADURAI KAMARAJ UNVIERSITY THEN I JOINED FOR JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW IN INZEC (INDIA-NEW ZEALAND EDUCATION COUNCIL) PROJECT FOR TWO MONTHS THEN I JOINED UNSRF (UNIVERSITY NON-STIPENDIARY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP. THNE I REGISTERED FOR PH.D DEGREE IN ZOOLOGY SUBJECT ENTITLED "STUDIES ON THE IMPACT OF OCEAN ACIDIFICATION ON SELECTED ECHINODERMS".









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