author(s)
Reema Singh and Manzoor Ahmed

abstract
Present study is based on private land that was an earlier barren land with fewer plants. The land has been converted into the forest through natural seeding and seed dispersal, and hence called as Regenerated or a Secondary Forest. A study has been done to understand the health of this regenerated forest area, and the data has been compared to the nearest study area Mulshi, Maharashtra, where a comparative study has been done forming landscapes that include natural forest area or primary forest. Three different landscapes and trail along the property has been created and butterflies were documented. Butterflies act as a "model" organism to study the richness of a forest. The data was used to understand the abundance of butterflies in a regenerated forest area as well as whether the forest patch can be considered a suitable habitat for the species to thrive. A total of 90 species of butterflies were documented from the survey area where butterflies of family Nymphalidae (35) were found to be dominant, followed by Lycaenidae (18), Pereidae (14), Hesperiidae (14), Papilionidae (8), Riodinidae (1).