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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: TWO IMPRESSIVE SCHOOLS | NATIONAL CENTRE | VISITORS FROM KOREA 2 things) yellow admirals now becoming established in my own community. From the We are looking forward with excitement to our exhibit at the NZ Flower and Garden EDITOR Show to be held in Auckland in November-December this year. And we are working on the hese are exciting times for follow-up to the insight gained CONTENTS the Moths and of into the Forest Ringlet. But Cover photo: Yellow admiral by Sally Phillips TNZ Trust and I think the articles in this the most exciting thing of all, I think, is the magazine reflect that. It is amazing for me progress on our plans to build the National to think that 13 years ago our organisation Butterfly Centre. 2 Editorial didn’t exist – and look at how far we’ve A quick shout out to the work of your come. trustees and our volunteers for making all 3 New Legal Advisor In this issue we share two wonderful our achievements come to fruition. Outside the Square stories from schools that have benefited from We do hope that you enjoy this issue and the resources we can provide. Children that will encourage your friends to also support grow up experiencing and handling monarch our cause. Working together, we can make 4 Corinna’s Caterpillars butterflies have a greater understanding of New Zealand rich with butterflies. biodiversity and appreciation for Nature. 5 Week at Over the winter we received a visit from Hurunui College two professors from Korea, keen to learn about our work in citizen science. We made 6 a submission on DOC’s Threatened Species Vegepods policy. We have been working with New World supermarket on their latest Little 7 National Butterfly Centre Garden promotion. Update For every $40 spent in store you receive a seedling kit to encourage young and old New Zealanders to learn and gain more 10 Notes from Butterfly Gully Newly emerged yellow admiral Jacqui's garden understanding about where food comes from 11 – and there are great supporting resources Te Puna Progress on the website (www.littlegarden.co.nz) There’s an article about some of our 12 The MBNZT At Work products from our shop which are now sent overseas, and I’m moved when I read of 13 Kiwiana Butterflies how our Kiwiana monarchs are enriching the lives of people in other lands. From our 14 Forest Ringlet Update magazines you can read about butterfly projects elsewhere in NZ… and even in Calendar my own garden, things have improved immensely for butterflies and moths over the 15 Inspector Insector years. The knowledge I’ve absorbed, from The Trusts Arena Auckland 29th November - 3rd December you and others, has led to (amongst other

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elcome to Richard Wood our Richard is looking forward to working new pro bono legal advisor. with us on any issues that demand his W Richard grew up in West legal expertise. Auckland and still remembers the “It will be a bonus to work with Sir fascination of having monarch butterflies Bob and an honour to be asked to be at Edmonton Road Primary School. part of the MBNZT. I’m looking forward “I was fascinated with the to working on the new venture at Tui transformation of a caterpillar into Glen, Henderson. As a westie I am a chrysalis,” he said, “and then the happy to support anything that shows emergence of the stunning and beautiful innovation and family values in our butterfly.” vibrant and diverse community.” He has an added connection because We look forward to having him as a his neighbour for the past thirty years is valued member of our team our patron, Sir Bob Harvey. Visitors from Korea n July we hosted Jin Hee Park and Dong-Kwang Kim, professors at Dongguk IUniversity in Seoul, Korea. They wanted to learn more about tagging monarch butterflies as they found out how to involve people in citizen science projects. Evidently the MBNZT was listed in an Australian Encyclopedia of Citizen Science. Yoonseo Ko and Dokyung Lee who are students at Auckland International College in Blockhouse Bay came along too: Jacqui had invited them to ensure nothing was “lost in translation”. The visitors were very interested in our work. They watched a monarch being tagged with fascination and learned about the Trust and its other projects. Left to right: Jacqui, Dokyung Lee, Jin Hee park, Yoonseo Ko, Dong-Kwang Kim and Rebecca Bibby. PALMERSTON GARDEN CIRCLE

When Jacqui spoke at the Palmerston Garden Circle recently, she got a surprise. Jan Smith and Isabel Anderson introduced themselves: with the help of the local school, Jan and Isabel have been tagging monarch butterflies. “The last generation of Monarchs each summer forms the breeding stock for next year’s population,” Jacqui told Palmerston gardeners. “With warmer weather mating and breeding is triggered and they return to gardens and swan plants.” It’s now over ten years since Trust members have been tagging monarchs. “One of the longest flights recorded in NZ was from Pukawa Bay near Turangi,” added Jacqui. “Three weeks later the butterfly was seen at Whangarei, some 400 kilometres away. Other monarchs have been recovered six or seven months after they were tagged, still in the same neighbourhood.” Until the MBNZT started tracking monarchs there was little research being done as to why some New Zealand butterfly species are disappearing. 4

Working in the butterfly CORINNA'S CATERPILLARS garden is a team effort By Joanne Ticehurst orinna School is situated in the caterpillars at Corinna School so they can season. We suburb of Waitangirua in Porirua. turn into butterflies. might even have CThe school has a stable roll of 220 In our garden we have swan plants a competition children from new entrants to year 8s. and marigolds. The swan plants are for and see who

Almost half the children are identified as the caterpillars to eat and the marigolds can grow the Faith Tusiga Samoan, followed by Maori, Cook Island attract the butterflies to our garden. tallest swan Maori, Tokelauan and other ethnicities When the caterpillars get big we bring plant. that include Filipino, Tongan, Tuvaluan, them inside to our butterfly tank and watch Last year, my class had to come Pakeha and Southeast Asian; including them go into a chrysalis. Then we wait for up with a solution to protect our swan Kampuchea/Cambodian, Laos and them to hatch out into a beautiful butterfly. plants from a major predator - the weed On Myanmar. When the butterfly hatches, it hangs eater! Our caretaker at the time thought e o f C o The children are culturally upside down to let the blood go through the plants were weeds until he noticed he r in n a diverse with many of its veins and to dry out its wings before it was actually in the butterfly garden, by s

m their parents from more can fly. then we had lost a few plants. At the time o n a than one ethnic group. We know which is a boy or a girl we were collecting bottles for another r c h Some children are because boys have a black dot on the project and the children thought we could s being raised by their bottom of each wing. use them around the garden. This lasted grandparents; and Some people in our class have taken until the holidays when vandals kicked some from homes the butterflies outside and released them. the bottles all around the garden. One of where English is a Most times the butterflies flew away but our teacher aides and a couple of children second language. some of us had to take our butterfly down built a wooden barrier around the garden At the end of 2011 the to the garden and put it on a swan plant. to protect the plants. school became part of the We have tagged many butterflies this During morning tea and lunchtimes, you Enviroschools community year. We know butterflies in America fly to can see the children from different year and in 2015 they received Mexico in winter. But where do our New levels looking at the caterpillars, counting their Silver award. The Enviroschools Zealand butterflies go? The tags might them and talking. They talk about what vision for Corinna is that the school help us find out. they see, what they’re thinking and what will be a place where the students feel Soon we will need to start planting they’re wondering. strong, nurtured and safe; their diversity our swan plant seeds ready for the next is expressed in many different ways; environmental programmes are school- Xiah Duncan wide, creating a clean waste-free place; the trees and gardens are cared for and they provide learning and nourishment for their community. Joanne Ticehurst is a Y3 classroom teacher at Corinna School and the Enviroschools Facilitator. “For the last three years my class has developed and maintained our butterfly garden,” she said. “Here’s a piece of collaborative writing about our butterfly journey this year, from four of my children, Marino, Ierei, Zaylin and Upoko.” Room six have been a kaitiaki of the right through to butterflies. The students to bring moth traps to our community and 5 were determined to see each butterfly together with some of the keener students emerge, but the tricky butterflies tended we set the traps out in three local areas for to sneak out when nobody was looking! two nights: a modified landscape, a native It took a little while for the teachers landscape, and a regenerating native to build up the confidence, but after a landscape. We collected a lot of different couple of goes they were well into the moths and are very much looking forward monarch tagging. We also gave tags to to seeing the results of this experiment. families who were rearing monarchs at James also had time to give talks to all home. Then one day in the students about moths in LEPIDOPTERA WEEK late March a student came general, and showed the kids AT HURUNUI COLLEGE to school reporting that a how to mount moths and By Tim Kelly tagged butterfly had been butterflies using household n the first week of March, Hurunui found at her grandfather’s resources. In the period College hosted its very own ‘Lepidoptera house 8km away. Sure following, the students were IWeek’. This was a follow on from our enough, it was one of the encouraged to photograph very successful ‘Spider Week’ in 2016. butterflies we had tagged lepidoptera they found at To call it a week is a bit of a misnomer as and this caused great home and post their photos planning started in spring 2016 and the excitement among the on www.naturewatch. activities pushed on through to the end of students. org.nz for identification. March. The butterflies inspired Naturewatch is used a lot The start of March marked the beginning a number of activities in in our school for species of the monarch butterfly tagging season. school that week, from art identification and is a really The previous spring the primary school projects, to creative writing, to science great tool for getting interaction with students and their teachers planted swan learning, and more. The highlights for the scientists. plant seeds and raised some seedlings. students were monarch tagging, watching Lepidoptera Week was for us more than Although this was less successful monarchs emerge, and moth trapping. just an opportunity to learn about moths than hoped, some obliging grown-ups Moth trapping occurred courtesy of one and butterflies; it was an opportunity to stepped in with adult swan plants for the of our school’s graduates, James Tweed take part in some genuine science and classrooms in the new school year. of Otago University. James is studying the get hands-on with lepidoptera ecology. It The students had been keenly following use of moths as indicators of ecosystem has been a highlight of the year to date the progress of the caterpillars and by health and also works for the citizen and has likely developed a new bunch the time March came around they had science programme, MothNet. As part of of butterfly enthusiasts to support the witnessed the transformation from eggs the MothNet programme James was able Monarch Butterfly Trust. Kings caring for

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Kings proudly supporting The Moths and Butterflies Find your nearest store at www.kings.co.nz of New Zealand Trust 6 one of these Perhaps I will pull up seedlings together with on a daily basis and feed them to a system monarch caterpillars in takeaway food that some containers. Then I can grow more people in the seedlings in the Vegepod to replace USA use to them. And as the caterpillars get too feed maximum big for the containers they can be monarchs: feeding the moved to a caterpillar castle. caterpillars on small plants in I will keep you posted in the forum containers. and also in our e-news. Meanwhile, if The Vegepod kit arrived and was you’re interested in Vegepods, I have easy to assemble. I placed it on the seen them planted up in Kings’ Plant sunny side of the house, near a hose, Barns. They can also be found on and filled it up with bags of container line, at www.vegepod.co.nz mix: it took less media to fill than the instructions stated. On top I scattered millions of swan plant seeds, yes hundreds of thousands of ‘old stock’ and covered it with a thin layer of container mix, watering it well. Vegepods are self-watering after a few weeks: an area beneath the WWOOFer media holds water. Nutrients are Tanina received reused rather than being washed out VEGEPOD the Vegepod as happens in other containers. By Jacqui Knight And sure enough, within a few weeks there were lots of little swan egepods are container gardens plants growing. Just like grass! with the benefits of a raised When the seedlings are a few inches Vgarden bed and an enclosed high, I plan to put eggs and small cover, extending growing season and caterpillars on them. We’ve all accelerating plant growth. seen sprouts or microgreens in the I thought that I might be able to use supermarkets. It’s the same principle. NATIONAL BUTTERFLY CENTRE UPDATE 7

arolyn Smith of Architecture was an example of eco-awareness and Reserve as the potential site as it Smith+Scully, who we engaged sustainability. will requires further consultation with Cto come up with a preliminary You can also see the inspiration Auckland Council staff and relevant concept for the National Butterfly Centre, behind the yellow, black and white stakeholders. And of course a large did us proud! You will be able to see a stripes of a monarch caterpillar along amount of funds. plan of the building and gardens on the the southern side of the building! Don’t The Board approved ‘in principle’ next two pages, and below are various you just love it? of the centre being developed and perspectives of the building. The next steps are to continue resolved that staff investigate the site You will notice the roof is shaped exploring and researching Tui Glen thoroughly. like the wings of a butterfly and it is designed to catch the sun so that the whole building will be solar powered as well as catching vital water for the gardens. And what a WOW factor as people approach the building from the gardens. When the plans were presented to the Henderson-Massey Local Board we were asked how the centre would contribute to the establishment of Henderson as an urban eco-centre. Carolyn told them the centre would be National Butterfly Education Centre - Concept ‘perfect in every way’ as the building 8 9 10 plants. I’m everybody keeping a loves butterflies concerned eye and they’re all on the seasonal interested in aphids, which what we’re doing seem to be here. They read becoming the large information James Morison explaining resistant to signs with interest, Butterfly Gully to a visitor from frost. They’ve especially the one that Hawkes Bay survived at least shows the monarch life-cycle. Notes from two hard frosts. They take in the sustainability and BUTTERFLY GULLY I’m hoping biodiversity message that we live by By James Morison, Head Groundsman, organic control here at Seaview. As well as developing Yealands Seaview Vineyard, Seddon will still be butterfly habitats, we have short-legged the way to baby doll sheep as lawnmowers, t’s been a wet and windy winter here at control them without affecting the next hens to keep down slugs and other Seaview Vineyard, so our overwintering generation of monarchs. potentially destructive , huge Imonarchs have forsaken their summer We’ve been planting lots of other stacks of bundled vine prunings that residence in Butterfly Gully to shelter in species in and around the gully, hebes fuel the furnaces that help power our areas with large trees. and native flaxes and even some winery, and the largest array of solar As I write this in late August there’s rhododendrons, which aren’t so much panels in the southern hemisphere on no sign yet of eggs or caterpillars, for the butterflies but to draw the eye the winery roof. but definitely a feel of spring in the of the visitors who come on the White So – roll on spring. We’re looking air and we’re all looking forward to Road Sustainability Tour around the forward to the first of the new the butterflies returning. As soon as vineyard. generation of this summer’s butterflies. we see them coming back we’ll start We’ve had so much rain that we’ve putting cut fruit out. They especially like not been able to work much at Nettle watermelon. Creek over winter. That’s the part of Butterfly Gully is on the White We still have one very big scotch Butterfly Gully we’ve allocated for host Road sustainability tour at Seaview thistle. I refuse to remove it, as the plants for the red and yellow admirals. Vineyard. Definitely worth a visit. butterflies love it. We’re clearing a more elevated area Yealands Family Wines is I’ve trimmed the older swan plants, and planting shade trees, and then Platinum sponsor of the Moths and which were looking pretty bedraggled we’ll plant the nettles. Butterflies of New Zealand Trust. and I’m delighted that we have masses All through the winter visitors have of healthy young self-seeded swan been stopping at the gully. It seems

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TE PUNA PROGRESS ave you visited Te Puna Quarry garden became a feature at our 2009 Children with their parents or in school Park since restoration of this conference. groups love it – they can learn about Hdisused quarry began? Over recent years with the help of butterflies and biodiversity. Once an old scar on the hillside, entomologist Norm Twigge and others, If you are in the Bay of Plenty make the 32 ha has now become a place of there have been additions of red and sure you schedule a visit. special beauty. There are gardens of yellow admirals, coppers, blues, Honshu an infinite variety, great walking paths, white admirals as well as cinnabar and sculptures, benches and picnic tables magpie moths breeding in the butterfly as well as spectacular panoramic views area. And the range of nectar and host out over the Bay of Plenty. plants is huge – a real delight. But the best part (of course) is the The latest addition is an extension butterfly garden! to the butterfly house which adds a A few years after the society was walk-through dimension to the facility. established, Mary Parkinson, who had As the park is completely maintained by spent a good deal of time developing volunteers, funding was provided by the the orchid section, suggested the Eastern Bay of Plenty Regional Council addition of a butterfly garden. Other for this feature. committee members gave her their seal Today, looking for inspiration for the of approval and she approached the National Butterfly Centre, we admire Monarch Butterfly Trust for advice. The what has been achieved at Te Puna.

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www.parvaplants.co.nz The Butterfly Team: Ata Ellery, Norm Twigge, Mary Parkinson, Liam Williams and Hugh Smith. Email: [email protected] Ph: 03 349 4918 12 nce again this year the MBNZT is partnering with a team of third-year OPR students from AUT who have THE MBNZT formed a PR agency ‘Outside the Square’. The project they are working on is to relaunch the ‘Flight of the Butterflies’ in at work! 3D so that the movie can be screened throughout the country. Kelsey Moller leads OUTSIDE THE SQUARE the enthusiastic team comprising Sammy Ritchie, Kate Shepherd, Holly Sutich and Anneke van Niekerk. They have already completed extensive research into past screenings, feedback generated and how the events were organised. They plan a media screening to NZ’s social media power influencers, especially those with young families, who will then help publicise future screenings around the country. Already the film’s producers, SK Films, have shown their support. “We believe that once the hype builds up around the movie there will be great interest and tickets will sell quickly,” said Kelsey They have developed a great strategy and presented this to several trustees who were supportive and excited about the potential. We will keep you informed via our social media, e-news and website… and of course there will be an update in the next magazine. If you are keen to see the Flight of the Butterflies in 3D in your town, please contact Kelsey Moller (far right) and members of the team: Holly us, [email protected]. Sutich, Sammy Ritchie, Anneke van Niekerk, Kate Shepherd PRIZE WINNERS st These lucky winners of pruners from Fiskars and books should have received their prizes by now: 1 Noelene Angus, Wainuiomata; Elizabeth Attwood, Bethlehem; Caroline Etherington, Merivale; Tim Fairhall, Te Atatu South; Marie Firth, Richmond; Sandy Hart, Paekakariki; Nola Huggins, Waiotira; Niki Keehan, Taradale; Margaret Newcombe, Titirangi; Dawn Norman, Taradale; Stefan Olson, Northcross; Mary Parkinson, Otumoetai; Christine Paterson, Weymouth; Gillian Paterson, Mayfair; Kay & Eddy Sanders, Albany; Jan Smith, Taupo; Mary Stuart, Karori; Gay & Maurice Tait, Te Hapara; Natalee Taylor, Unsworth Heights; Roy & Meryl Walker, Maunu

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This Monarch landed Kiwiana butterflies in San Francisco. ur Kiwiana monarch butterflies Torres Strait Islanders.” knew Tracy would be thrilled. You made sold on our website and on They have quite a collection of it so easy!" OTradeMe are a huge success. Kiwiana: Mama Kiwi and her babies as Tracy says it is the most beautiful blue Priced between $40 and $70 depending well as pukeko. They said that ‘Kahuku’ and gorgeous. on size, several of them have recently arrived in perfect condition after her long “I feel very spoilt, such a beautiful found their way to overseas homes. journey from Aotearoa. surprise,” she told Diana. “It’s just what Living in San Francisco, Matt Anderson “I admire her each day and reconnect I needed this week. You have lifted my remembered these from when he was to my homeland.” spirits.” growing up in New Zealand. Elsewhere in Australia a bright blue Diana says that two different monarch “I thought our house in San Francisco Kiwiana butterfly takes pride of place butterflies have brought two friends would suit one,” he said. “My wife outside a Victorian home. This was a gift closer together in two different parts of Barbara and I have been living here from Diana Ransley, who lives in Katikati. the world. for four years in a little beachfront Let Diana tell her story: community of about 20 houses.” “I had just finished painting our little Butterfly beating the Matt and Barbara commute across the retro cottage at the beach and felt blues in Australia. bay each day to the city, where he runs something was missing. One sleepless a design team at a company building night I had the revelation that I needed to software for self-drive (autonomous) incorporate orange somehow. I planted cars. orange flowers but wanted more. Then I “We help companies all around the had a light bulb moment. It was missing world run transportation services, such an old-fashioned, exterior orange as Uber.” monarch butterfly. To my joy I found Another monarch flew to Queensland. exactly what I wanted from you and Kahuku is the latest addition to Jody placed the order. It is perfect and now and Gary’s tropical garden in Bamaga, sits on the pergola post. Queensland. Several months later my best Kiwi They live at the tip of Cape York, where friend, now living in Australia came to Jody teaches English and Gary works in visit. She loved the butterfly and thought IT as well as driving the school bus. it was a perfect blast from the past. “We have been here for three years “When she was a little homesick I and plan to stay on for a bit as there's decided to send her a pick-me-up gift. so much to explore,” Jody said. “The I realised I could order a bright blue predominant cultures are Aboriginal and butterfly, and was really excited as I 14 Forest RingletPROJECT UPDATE

Leader of our Forest Ringlet Project, Peter Maddison, says that the next steps will be to do genetic work to find out the DNA on forest ringlets from various parts of the country. At the same time we are having discussions with the Auckland Zoo about the potential to breed the butterfly there. He is also liaising with some owners of Encourage private forest ringlet habitats to ensure that the butterfly’s into your garden best interests are catered for. Check out our BUTTERFLY BEAUTIES We hope to find a source of plants (the preferred host selection or choose from a variety of plant for the butterfly) as well but searches seeds that the butterflies will just love. for these plants have so far proven unsuccessful. Anyone interested in further involvement in this project and keen to help, please contact Peter at [email protected].

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CASE FILE 8A REWARD OFFERED: All Insect Investigators who email Inspector Insector with the correct answer will go FRANTIC FELICITY FLIT in the draw to win a beautiful book from Scholastic New BACKGROUND TO THE CASE: Felicity Flit the red Zealand. admiral butterfly is beside herself with worry. She has seen an insect with white spots on its body crawling all over her HERE’S A TIP: check out the forum on the Moths and beloved baby chrysalis. She has heard all about those Butterflies of New Zealand Trust’s website nasty, creepy-crawly parasites that lay their eggs https://www.monarch.org.nz/forum/ inside innocent chrysalises, eating the caterpillars during their change. Felicity Good luck team. thinks that there may be something horrible and Buzzingly Yours, hideous growing inside her young ones. Inspector Insector The Queen Bee has asked Inspector Insector to put all of his Insect Investigators on the case to help her find the spotty villain. INVESTIGATION REQUIRED: all Insect Investigators are instructed to find out the name of the insect with white spots on its body that lays its eggs inside red admiral butterfly chrysalises and to email their answer to Inspector Insector at [email protected]. WIN Your purchase supports the Moths and GOODIES TO BUY Butterflies of New Zealand Trust CATERPILLAR CASTLES SEEDS – $5 PER PACKET

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