Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust

11 Monarchs sunning themselves on two large bushes (variety unknown) at top of Summit Road, Fairfield, Lower Hutt

One butterfly flew past, didn’t settle.

The following from Bernie Farrell in England:
Living in the UK,where milkweed is not native,one of the commonest problems for monarch breeders is too many eggs and not enough milkweed.Over confidence invariably leads to having too many cats which seem fine when they are small but devour huge quantities of foodplant as […]

Three sunny mornings in a row! The butterflys are loving it. They have found the Tree Lucern which is now flowering.Have counted 25 on it and others floating around.Most have survived the hail storms by hanging UNDER the leaves I have discovered.

butterfly was flapping on concrete steps - seemed exhausted

1 monarch, good condition, searching for food ,landed on geranium few spent flowers

8 monarchs on 3-4 adjacent large trees.

One monarch (female) alighted on a camellia bush.

found dead under a blossom tree with eight other dead tagged butterflies

These photos are of Jacqui Knight, the Butterfly Lady, Mad. B. as she is affectionately known, and her Mazda 3 Butterflymobile.