Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust

Common (not so common!) Copper Butterfly, Lycaena salustius (pair mating)- Mt Cook. Thank you Martin!

Lycaena boldenarum-Mt Aspiring National Park, Martin Gascoignee-Pees

Bassaris gonerilla - Akaroa (Banks Peninsula, South Island)
Photo also by Martin Gascoignee-Pees

Argyrophenga antipodum, Lewis Pass, South Island
Photo by Martin Gascoignee-Pees

Based in Hampshire, England, Nigel and his wife Grace are members of the International Butterfly Breeders Association (IBBA). They have more than 35 years of experience of breeding butterflies in Europe, Africa and South America. Their consultancy work includes visits to South and Central America as well as internet and telephone consultancy to butterfly farmers in the Middle East. They both give seminars in North America about breeding methods and how to start a butterfly farm.

Dorothy Penhalluriack in Cromwell, Central Otago took this wonderful photo of a Red Admiral feeding.