Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust

Paper wasps eating my eggs on swan plants

..from last batch of eggs laid in September.
(North Shore)

We have had monarchs every day for the last few weeks laying eggs Our plants are very depleted but just covered in eggs Have spent all day planting out new ones but some of those are already covered with eggs Have had no luck as yet with raising seedlings from the seeds sent with […]

One very faded female, laying eggs on my small swan plants and resting on Viburnum (Snowball bush)

Tattered female closely observed to be laying on Aucuba japonica shrub

Flying around our flowers

several butterflies every day

Two flying happily around. We are right on the coastline of the Manukau Harbour

a couple dancing around the garden

millions of monarchs on a native tree…..only that one tree.