Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust

I liberated a Monarch which I had rescued from our cat. He/she happily flew away to land in a Kohekohe tree nearby. Since then the butterfly has returned and quite remarkably providing the temperature is 18-20 degrees, flies the same route over our front fence and along the front of our house from the property […]

A single Monarch, large and brightly coloured. Flew from SE onto a bush of yellow daisy flowers. Seemed to be feeding in a blossom - after three minuets it flew up, circled above the daisy plant and flew to another similar plant about 5 metres away near the letterbox. Stayed on that bush for about […]

We have had the occasional butterfly until about a month ago. The last caterpillar I was was on our swan plant last week but haven’t seen it since. I will report any further sightings.

Over wintering of numbers of butterfies for the last 5 years to my knowledge

At the unused end of a motor camp with trees all around. there were hundreds hanging almost touching

had abundance 3 years ago 10 large plants + lots of seeds ,but the next year all plants were stripped
not many plants last year so very few,as plants are stripped before getting a chance to grow, last sighting was in early june 05 plants this year have not recovered, expect a passing few unless plants […]