it crowd from bengaluru kochi and thiruvananthapuram he says the growing triberenowned butterfly expert v k chandrasekharan has taken part in many recent surveys in the state as well as outside it is like a scientific renaissance he explains adding that there are many new publications too that dedicate space to butterflies and the organisers care more about the interest than academic qualifications and offline many young amateur nature enthusiasts are seen taking part in extensive butterfly surveys across the state putting in efforts to photograph collect and conserve data flit through social media and you can see its home to numerous butterfly enthusiasts groups these days they are part of social media groups that announce such initiatives and quickly raise their hands when a survey is announced generate data make reports and give forest department if you take five beautiful butterflies in the whole country budha peacock will easily be in the top threethere were also a few opinion polls in the meetings by malabar natural history society and travancore nature society where many suggestions came up from which the budha peacock was finalised and proposed yathumon m a a degree student from kannur who recently took part in the surveys of munnar and nilambur says getting to watch numerous butterflies in their habitats in itself can be an amazing experience why select a state butterflyjafer palode zoologist with zoology survey of india explains the budhamayoori is an endangered species and when it gets a state tag there will be some renewed interest in its protection some of the major surveys that were conducted recently were the karimbuzha survey chinnar survey that spotted two new species and parambikkulam survey that found 11 new species and became the protected forest with maximum butterfly species you also have room for a lot more contribution as not much study has been conducted in this field