Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust

flying around and sunning their wings

5 monarchs on two adjacent tall trees, hanging with folded wings.

Butterflies at the top of a very high Camphor Laurel tree, an overwintering site 2 yr ago but I didn’t see any there last year, poss because of only occasional visits

monarch flying

Crysalis’ which have hatched in my home garden,2 males, have needed to bring butterflies inside during extreme weather conditions, fed them with watered down honey,let them go when weather settles

Plenty sunning themselves, and a mating pair!

Terrific N. wind all yesterday - the branches they had settled on for the night were being turned inside out.Yet today they are returning to my flowering plants.How did they survive???

This is the cage my Dear Husband made for my wintering butterflies. I have another the same to transfer the butterflies into after they have been fed. We took the pictures outside so the light was better. Cheers Margie

I notice that they seem to like the buds of the acacias even though there are some flowers open. Also no huge clusters settle for the night — I can see 6 separate groups of about 25 in each. Probably more groups out of my sight range in the very tall eucalypt tree,and they […]