Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust

2 males spooted in & around a tree (I think its a weeping willow) in the public park behind the Lowerhutt town hall, they were not tagged

Butterfly seemed a little on the small side.

fluttering around and landed on a tree was spreading wings and closing

A hedgehog ate every chrysalis within its reach.

A hedgehog ate every chrysalis within its reach.

Butterfly was dead

found by lawnmower man

monarch butterflies =3 feeding on a red bottle brush(?) tree