Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust

a hedgehog has been eating our butterfly chrysalis and knocking over swan plants.

Many Monarch butterflies seen all summer and even into winter. We have quite a few Swan plants which the caterpillars have stripped bare so i took 20 or so home to my garden in Newlands and they all hatched and have been back laying eggs on my Swan plants. I hadn’t previously seen any in […]

my 7 foot swan plant has yielded over 60 monarchs so far this season with more to come

One butterfly flying

Have seen monarchs in garden every day for last week. Numerous eggs/newly hatched caterpillars on our swan plants.

One butterfly flying

2 large and tidy examples

One butterfly flying over sand at water’s edge.

15 butterflies have hatched and flown from my swan plant during the last 2 weeks, all very healthy and beautiful

I have seen one butterfly over the last few weeks, But i also have 13 caterpillers,