[Caryl]

This season is very different. I had monarch eggs in late July (usually in late August)and yesterday I noticed my first hatched eggs. They are so very tiny and the weather is awful – 8 degrees at 10 a.m and strong wind. Anyone else in Wellington with tiny cats. I am in Seatoun.

[LeslieD]

Not even butterflies here in Karori … Nothing seems to be happening in northland either. Higher Welly suburbs are usually late but no sightings at all is unusual.

[Jacqui]

Interesting, Caryl! Lots of plants up here in Auckland but apart from a few caterpillars nearly full-grown, no eggs around. But at Narrow Neck and Massey (North Shore and West Auckland respectively) I hear they are inundated with caterpillars!

Always strange, isn’t it?

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