Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust

lots of monarch\’s feeding on kanuka and lavendar

They fly around our garden all year round

Paper wasp actively hunting and eating caterpillers … I have found the most effective way to save the caterpillers is to cover egg laden plants with my caterpiller cosies. A quick, easy, effective solution against wasps, praying mantis, shield beetles, stick insects and what have you.
Regards
Diana Dawson

orange poo brown puke green and black

we harvest caterpillars from milkweed plants & hand rear them

I use to live in Papakura in the mid 1990s and I grew swan plants and the monarchs came,I started bringing some inside because those nasty german wasps would sting the crysalis and caterpillars.I am in Papatoetoe now and successfully had crysalis and monarch butterflies living off the swan plant,for the last 4 years in […]

I use to live in Papakura in the mid 1990s and I grew swan plants and the monarchs came,I started bringing some inside because those nasty german wasps would sting the crysalis and caterpillars.I am in Papatoetoe now and successfully had crysalis and monarch butterflies living off the swan plant,for the last 4 years in […]

I use to live in Papakura in the mid 1990s and I grew swan plants and the monarchs came,I started bringing some inside because those nasty german wasps would sting the crysalis and caterpillars.I am in Papatoetoe now and successfully had crysalis and monarch butterflies living off the swan plant,for the last 4 years in […]

Not a butterfly, but a resonably mature caterpillar on one of my swan plants. A butterfly must hve been here last month.