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COPPER BUTTERFLIES Let’S Plant a Copper Butterfly Highway ISSUE 07 | SUMMER 2013-14 BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS OF NEW ZEALAND Bring in the COPPER BUTTERFLIES Let’s plant a Copper Butterfly Highway XMASPLUS ON PG 16: GIFT IDEAS ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: • Rhode Street School’s innovative approach to learning • Nodding Milkweed – A good hardy specimen for butterflies • Movie Review – Flight of the Butterflies • A butterfly garden for all creatures great and small 2 both topics are covered in this issue. So very uplifting. From the There’s more wonderful articles here for your pleasure, too. All about our EDITOR Copper butterflies and their host plants – and another on’t you just love this time type of milkweed that we Dof year? I get a thrill when should be able to establish CONTENTS I see my first Monarch, and soon in New Zealand, I hope. Cover photo: Male Lycaena salustius or first Admiral and... when I hear the first It does sound an interesting Common Copper, photo by Angela Moon- Shining Cuckoo... The first daffodils... variety. We have had a lot of interest Jones. Depending on the outcome of a peer first bluebells... Well now that’s all behind shown in A. purparescens (see last review this butterfly may well become known us and we’re almost into Summer. By issue) and hope to be able to sell it in as Maui’s Copper. the time you’re reading this, Summer will the future. 2 Editorial be here! Many people are reporting sightings of 3 Who’s helping our butterflies Last week I drove from Murupara Painted Ladies (Vanessa kershawi) which and moths through the Waikaremoana Road to have been blown over from Australia Wairoa and... what a thrill! I noticed in recent months. They’ve been found 4 Rhode Street School’s innovative a dark shape fly around my car and mostly in North Island coastal areas – approach to learning thought it was a bumble bee, but it similar colourings to Monarchs (orange) 6 Nodding Milkweed wasn’t quite the right shape. And then but not much bigger than a Cabbage another and another and many, many White butterfly. At rest (which is not 7 Flight of the Butterflies more. This was over some distance – very often) you may notice that their 8 Bring in the Copper butterflies. 10 kilometres or so. hindwings are scalloped. Please continue to Let’s plant a Copper Butterfly So I stopped and report sightings in to Highway walked back along the road and there www.mb.org.nz. 10 MBNZT at work around the were two Red I was thrilled to learn country Admirals on the that my garden has been Butterfly T-shirts for sale road behind me. certified as being a good example of butterfly 12 A butterfly garden for all There were more fluttering about – so habitat. If you haven’t creatures great and small wonderful to see previously considered 14 Three Taranaki Tales so many in such a having your garden short space of time: certified, do so – it is 15 Photography Tip rewarding to have probably about 50 Painted Lady – photo by 16 Goodies to buy – Great gift all up! There must be Anna Barnett others look at your ideas for Xmas some expanses of habitat objectively host plant nearby and it was obviously and make suggestions. too early for the wasps. We’re delighted to bring you some I was excited to visit Rhode Street more of our innovative T-shirt range School recently and learn all about what (see page 11) and hope to have bags they are doing for and with butterflies available too. If you have a specific colour of species you’d like to wear, and and moths. This is a great little school it’s not shown in the range, do let us in Hamilton – read about it on page 4. know and we’ll try and get it for you. Also, when I visited Taranaki last month I Enjoy your butterflies and gardens! Editor/Secretary: Jacqui Knight was astounded at what is going on there – Jacqui Knight [email protected] as far as restoring habitat for butterflies: Art Director: Kristie Rogers, [email protected] A big thank you Treasurer: Carol Stensness Please support [email protected] to our magazine Advertising: Angela Moon-Jones sponsors. We couldn’t [email protected] OUR SPONSORS do it without you. ISSN 2324-1993 (Print) ISSN 2324-2000 (Online) Published by: Moths and Butterflies of New Zealand Trust, PO Box 44100 Pt Chevalier, Auckland 1246 www.nzbutterflies.org.nz [email protected] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ mbnzt Twitter: @NZButterflies Pinterest: pinterest.com/mbnzt Printed in New Zealand on Cocoon 100% recycled paper using vegetable-based inks 3 Who’s helping our BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS Palmerston When she is not butterfly spotting North Emily’s other academic and professional interests include Emily Demchick freshwater invertebrates and was approached stream ecology. by the Palmerston Above: The wheelbarrows from the dedicated helpers. North City Below: The finished butterfly Environmental Milson habitat at Apollo Park, Milson. Trust last year to The butterfly habitat at Apollo conduct a survey Park, Milson, is looking even Paul Vandenberg of Monarchs Emily Demchick more spectacular following a overwintering in working bee where a crowd of 17 different parks between May and July dedicated people put in hours of work because of her background in ecology making wheelchair-friendly paths to and zoology. Emily has a particular enable improved access for everyone. interest in invertebrates and was thrilled They had nine wheelbarrows working by the opportunity. The interest in the hard out and after 4½ hours they had winter behaviour of Monarchs has been laid down over 150m of lime pathway. fostered by the butterfly gardens at Paul Vandenberg has also added a Apollo Park. Eleven parks were found to few more plants and pulled out some have Monarchs clustering. unwanted weeds. He has had tentative Butterfly counts were generally highest approval for street signage. Good on you in June but the number of parks with Paul and team! Monarchs was greatest in May which would suggest that butterflies move into larger groups as winter progresses. The Christchurch Owaka Kathryn Smith made this art PNCET is in the process of determining At Earthlore piece as part of her Pastoral how the data from the past two years Gordon has Care study. It was an ‘art can best be used with regards to been busy reflection/relaxing’ session. butterfly conservation in Palmerston building Her tutor came with a ‘box of bits’ and North and what future research may the ‘Great asked the students to create an artwork. be beneficial. Orlando’s Magical Thames Flea Circus Clinton Care made puppet show. these Eastern Black He’s finished Swallowtail butterfly construction and a wooden Comet on the Big moth by hand. Clinton Top and has can often be found the stage in the forum on finished... our website, www. Watch this monarch.org.nz/forum space! 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Principal Shane Ngatai has been at the school for seven years Above: The first Monarch this year. and has a reputation for challenging the status quo and going the extra mile. its own commercial kitchen, vegetable The school is in the process of gardens, greenhouse, orchard and creating an ecological island complete chickens and now has a yearly Kai with lake, swing-bridge and shipping Festival for which the children grow container classroom. They want to plant and prepare food and share with their more plants for New Zealand butterflies community. and other insects as well as birds and All projects are student-led. If they other life. can dream it, they can do it. They have The Decile 3 school has a high had swan plants and Monarchs in and proportion of Maori students (76%) and around the grounds for many years and has previously made headlines for its this is how they incorporate them into innovations in dealing with poverty. Over their learning. The plants now reseed the past few years it has developed themselves each year. Illustration by Noah “Well first a grown up butterfly lays an egg and it goes a long way. Then the egg turns into a caterpillar and the caterpillar spins a chrysalis. The most interesting part of the Monarch butterfly is when the chrysalis transforms into a butterfly.” – Anita (8) 5 As an example, in the New Entrants room Mrs Holmes uses butterflies to teach the concept of symmetry. The children created colourful pictures of one side of a butterfly which they then folded while still wet, to create a symmetrical pattern on the other side. The six-year-olds have been learning about Monarch butterflies and using this to scaffold their writing. They enjoyed creating butterflies using brightly coloured acrylic paint. Adel: ”When the butterfly eat too much its tummy gets fat and it turns into chrysalis.” Mercy : “When you put the butterfly on your hand it will die, because you might squash it.” At age eight the children have all learned about the life cycle of a Monarch.
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