Guía para el reconocimiento y determinación de la importancia ecológica de lepidópteros en el camino ancestral San Francisco Vicachá

Abstract

The Eastern Hills of Bogotá D.C are located in the Colombian Eastern Cordillera, comprising about 14,000 hectares of mountain range between the highlands and the eastern plains, in them there is great biodiversity due to the diversity of Fauna and flora, they also offer environmental services to the city and surrounding villages such as local climate regulation, air improvement and water availability (Rojas, 2017). The anthropological impact that the Eastern Hills have had harms the life cycle of the lepidoptera, these individuals are bioindicators for this reason through this work it is intended to make an exploration and identification of the lepidoptera in the San Francisco Vicachá Ancestral Trail to make a Virtual graphic guide, a pedagogical design that was implemented three times with varied populations along the way. Surveys were carried out before the environmental experience to identify previous ideas and thus clarify them and focus the information during the tour, post environmental experience surveys were carried out where visitors to the path recognize the morphology, life cycle, metamorphosis, ecological importance, differences between day and night butterflies, a reflection was also made to encourage the protection of lepidoptera.