F lowering plants depend wholly or partially on pollination for sexual reproduction (Klein et al., 2007). Over three quarters of the world's crops and more than 80 percent of all flowering plants are dependent on pollination (Kenmore and Krell, 1998). Majority of plants from which human beings benefit depend on arthropods as pollinators. Among arthropods, insects are important pollinator of crops worldwide. Without arthropods as pollinators, many plants could not set seed and reproduce fruits and without visit to plants, many arthropods population could crash (Ollerton, 1999). Recently the production value of pollinated crops in Pakistan was enumerated as 1.59 billion US$ with major share of fruits with 0.98 billion US$ (Irshad et al., 2014).Apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.) is an imperative fruit crop of the Rosaceae family. During last two decades, apricot production has increased more than 85%, mostly due to the increase in planting area in Algeria Egypt, Iran, Morocco, Pakistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan (Bendif et al., 2017). In Pakistan, apricot is grown in Balochistan,
Development a residential area cause fragmentation both green space and wildlife habitat as well. Moreover, the landscape design orientation in housing areas usually focusing on the aesthetic value and less attention to the ecological function as well as the health of the ecosystem. Butterflies are the indicators of environmental and ecosystem health. Areas rich in butterflies and moths indicate the richness of other invertebrates. These collectively provide a wide range of environmental benefits, including pollination and natural pest control. Therefore the presence of ecological orientation of green space in a residential area as a habitat for butterflies and other wildlife is one of the solution. The purpose of this study is to create an ecological green space plan for a butterflies habitat in the residential area. The study was conducted consist of preparation, data collection, data analysis, synthesis and planning. The aspect analyzed in this study are biophysical aspect and quality of ecological aspect that contains butterflies diets and a host plants, proximity to the water resource, vegetation cover and the interspersion of habitat components. The result show that the butterflies on the site, qualitatifly, indicate quite diverse lack of diversity of host plants and the vegetation for the butterflies diets. The as green space plan for butterfly habitat was arranged based on the development of the ecological space concept, the vegetation concept and the animal activities concept. Each green space unit (patches) has functions as sink and source and also as steping stone and connecting corridor between sinks and source. A plant selection is proposed for each green space unit.
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