Monarch Butterfly Plants Nz. Provide a moist sand or mud area where the butterflies can drink and obtain salts and other nutrients. 2020 moths and butterflies of new zealand trust.
Explore 25 milkweed options for your butterfly garden. Without these plants monarchs could not breed here. Zealandia horticulture enabling all our plants to flourish from day one as well as the sponsors of butterflies magazine.
Nectar plants for butterflies.
The monarch butterfly or simply monarch danaus plexippus is a milkweed butterfly subfamily danainae in the family nymphalidae. 2020 moths and butterflies of new zealand trust. Its wings feature an easily recognizable black orange. Although found in many places around the world the monarch is considered a new zealand native because it became established here on its own.