ISSUE 06 | SPRING BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS OF NEW ZEALAND In search of the elusive SMALL APOLLO 10 TO BE ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: WON • Raumati South School impresses at the Ellerslie Flower Show • Purple Milkweed – a great addition for butterfly lovers • Raising Monarchs is as easy as ABC • Create a butterfly habitat with our on-line course 2 There’s a new milkweed being profiled and it sounds From the very exciting. I think purple is my favourite colour in the garden and of course it EDITOR sets the Monarch colouring off so nicely! And talking am so pleased that Spring is about colour, Jane has really I“here”. The lambs and calves, got carried away by colour the blossom, new growth... it this time in the garden. So CONTENTS all gets me very excited, that soon it will appropriate for Spring. be Summer and we’ll be surrounded by We realise that many people are new Cover photo: Spotted Frittilaries mating – butterflies. I know that we need to have a to our organisation and won’t know how photo by Angela Moon-Jones Winter, but I’m always so pleased when the MBNZT was formed, so we take 2 Editorial Spring is with us again. a look back at our early days. We’ve come such a long 3 Please welcome our new Trustees So it’s with great delight that we bring you this year’s Spring magazine. way. I love the 130 years in the making Some of our taggers have won prizes photograph of from Yates – as has Rena Oliphant the Monarchs 4 Children and Butterflies at from Christchurch who has received a at Butterfly Ellerslie 2013 gardening gift from them. Bay. How 6 Purple Milkweed It’s great to cover yet another school awesome to which is making a difference for our see something 7 History of the MBNZT like this in NZ. New Zealand butterflies. Raumati South Butterfly Bay on the Kapiti Coast was the first school We have reports 9 Loads of Colour from various to be invited to exhibit at the Ellerslie parts of the country during Winter, 10 Raising Monarchs – as easy International Flower Show and by all that people are seeing overwintering as ABC accounts they were an inspiration. I love Monarchs. How wonderful! some of their ideas and can’t wait to 12 Butterfly Expeditions We have two new trustees joining put some of them into action in my own us – both men with extensive corporate garden. Did I say “some”? I mean ALL. 13 Get Growing backgrounds – and sadly say goodbye Angela Moon-Jones (who sells to Sea Rotmann who is leaving our One-line course – Create a advertising in this magazine) and her butterfly habitat board to pursue her political career. We husband Rob Jones have just returned thank her for the work she has done on 14 Photography Tip from a butterfly hunt in Europe. They behalf of our organisation. love taking photographs of their finds Some months ago we had some fun Certification – what you and Angela agreed to share some of her in the forum on our website, with people need to apply best photos here with a brief summary of contributing an alphabet of tips for 16 Goodies to buy her trip, including the photo on the cover. raising Monarchs. You’ll see the finished It sounds so amazing. article in this issue. Some very good Subscribe and win points were made. But that’s just a short Correction sampling of what we have to offer in this 10 Our apologies for not acknowledging Spring magazine. We know you’ll love it. TO BE Barbara Ryan who contributed the Keep up the good work and if you are WON text and photographs for the article able to, please support our sponsors. “Muritai School, Eastbourne, enjoys Don’t hesitate to tell them that you’re the benefits of butterflies” published in part of this great organisation, the Editor/Secretary: Jacqui Knight the Winter 2013 magazine. [email protected] MBNZT. 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.monarch.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 their childhood?” Meanwhile Mark has Please welcome our been in the Waikato since June 2010 having moved from Christchurch shortly before the earthquake. NEW TRUSTEES “I work for Fleetpartners NZ and look lease welcome Glenn product development after corporate fleets in Waikato and the Bay of PJohnstone and Mark and marketing,” he said. Mark Kendrick Kendrick, our new trustees. “Working in and around Plenty,” he said. Glenn lives in Auckland and governance has played a Since finishing at says that since the heady large part within all the roles University of Canterbury in 2002 he days of watching butterflies in I’ve had. Wanting to take this has been working in the finance sector the veggie patch as a young further and bring my energy though various insurance roles looking kid growing up in Palmerston and direction to something after brokers and corporate clients. North, he has gone on to have I had a passion for saw me Mark has a strong interest in a career that has spanned jump at being a part of the developing the community either via Glenn Johnstone large corporates through to Moths and Butterflies of NZ sporting organisations or not-for-profit small and medium businesses. Trust.” groups and using his networking skills “With a background in finance, my “I can’t imagine not having butterflies to be able to achieve this. Outside of current role as an IT Telephony CEO sees and moths – who doesn’t want their kids work Mark is interested in sport, music, me dealing with all facets of business to grow up with swan plants, monarchs movies and family time. – especially legal, contract, strategy, and other Lepidoptera in Welcome to the MBNZT. 130 YEARS in the making seem to remember learning most of pots, potting mix and I my gardening skills from my mother. tools. Christchurch won $100 of Her ‘bible’ was the Yates Gardening To celebrate its 130th Yates products for signing Guide, which is still published today... birthday, Yates released up to their mailing list. It’s after so many years! Yes, the Yates a commemorative seed the first time Rena has Garden Guide was first published in tin (below) containing won a competition so she 1895. ten packets of heritage was pretty excited. Rena’s Yates was founded in Auckland by seed varieties and class (Year 2, St Martine Arthur Yates in 1883. In 1887, he a booklet outlining School) has had swan plants opened a branch in Sydney and left the history of the Winner Alex Giblin with Monarch caterpillars his brother, Ernest, in charge of the NZ company. The tin this year. She said, “I liked store. The brothers came to an is illustrated on watching the caterpillars get agreement to run the stores five sides with imagery from bigger and bigger and the separately until the 1980s, the extensive Yates archival butterflies hatch out.” when the two companies collection of photographs, seed Thanks to the support of Yates for our merged again. packets and advertising material. tagging project, this year’s taggers were By 1893 Arthur had started This great keepsake, all entered into a draw to win one of five selling seed packets for home commemorating a very special commemorative tins, and the winners gardeners. Later, Yates began anniversary in this country’s are: Jules Cunningham, Alex Giblin, Sam to sell other gardening items gardening history, is still available Kean, Brian Thompson, and Gwen and apart from seeds, and the range from various garden centres. Barry Wilkinson. soon included fertiliser, sprays, Seven-year-old Rene Oliphant in Thanks Yates! The World’s Plants to Your Door PARVA PLANTS NZ’s Most Comprehensive TALK TO US ABOUT A GREAT DISCOUNT FOR mail-order plant Catalogue PROBUS / SENIOR GROUPS (MENTION THIS ADVERT) FANTASTIC WARM UNDERCOVER OUTING WITH FREE, Full Colour, Plant Catalogue GREAT PACKAGES INCLUDING MEALS, MADE FRESH HUGE range of flowering Perennials, FROM OUR KITCHEN! Shrubs, & New Releases ideal for SEE OVER 700 FREE FLYING BUTTERFLIES, BUGS, AQUARIA, attracting butterflies to your garden. MONKEYS, CROCODILES, ALLIGATORS & MORE! BUTTERFLY CREEK – (09) 275 8880 EXT 204 www.parvaplants.co.nz 10 TOM PEARCE DRIVE, AUCKLAND AIRPORT Email: [email protected] Ph: 03 349 4918 4 CHILDREN AND BUTTERFLIES at Ellerslie 2013 by Barbara Ryan Photos and story Diane Turner, Teacher Aid at Raumati South School arlier this year our students had had been Above left: Kids love to learn, seen here Ean exciting trip to take part in the involved with are two pupils of Mrs Lambert’s class Ellerslie International Flower Show in over the last at our school getting a closer look at a Christchurch. I say ‘take part’ because five years. Monarch caterpillar, (well at least they were until I got the camera out!) it wasn’t just a day trip. We had the We started great privilege of being the first school planting natives and building a vege Above: The finished garden is complemented by a beautiful recycled art to create their own exhibition garden at garden based on comments from piece created by Tanya Vliss’s five-year- Ellerslie.