Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust

approx 40 butteries \”roosting\” in a douglas? fir tree in a Kamo park

We have just found your site and wanted you to know that we have Swan bushes in our garden which have helped to produce at least 150 Monarch butterflies so far.

wishing for sunshine both myself and butterflys,i think they were hugging up to my warm cup of tea!

light showers sunshine mild wind

it swoped down picked up my cat and ripped its legs off

it flew by me when i was walking

Sitting on Pohutakawa tree

A number of butterflies, generally in pursuit of one-Mating? One of the elderley residents here suggested that in the past he believed that they wintered over in the bush behind my house. It is sheltered, sort of clifflike but well covered by a mixture of natives, wattles, ornamental plants. Will check with the people […]

One butterfly flying thru the garden