Norm Twigge’s butterfly house at Te Puna Quarry Park. The shade cloth is just the standard green shade cloth available from Bunnings, Mitre 10 etc. The Biodynamic Unit at Lincoln University […]
Category Archives: Monarchs
Template for Flight of the Butterflies sculpture
April 26, 2015 – 10:29 PM
Here is the template to create butterflies to add to our overwintering colony. Template for butterflies Print off the A4 template and then separate the eight rectangles with the butterfly […]
Oe (Ophryocystis elektroscirrha)
November 7, 2010 – 12:45 PM
Friends at the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, gave us permission to upload a presentation about this Protozoan parasite that affects Monarch butterflies […]
Possible OE infected butterfly
February 5, 2010 – 11:09 AM
As discussed with Jacqui. Found this butterfly sandwiched between two layers of windbreaker material. Had hatched from its chrysalis that was made between the two layers and I had no […]
Closeups of a Fresh seed
June 19, 2009 – 6:29 PM
6 shots of the SAME seed from different angles with a bit of added lighting. The swan the seed was taken from was just starting to split at the tip […]
Good and bad seeds
June 19, 2009 – 5:30 PM
I have no qualifications in seed grading, but the seeds in the attached photograph that are underlined in yellow (three of them I think) I would classify as being the […]
