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It’s conservation week here in New Zealand. 🌍🌱🦋🐝 Butterflies are important pollinators in our environment. We need to protect them as numbers are much lower than previous years. Butterflies have every right to be around for future generations. How can we help save the Monarch Butterflies? Here’s a handy list below. We can all do our bit individually, as every little gesture makes a difference.💖😁🌏☑️ ➡️Avoid pesticides. ➡️DON'T feed caterpillars pumpkin, courgettes or cucumbers, it makes them sick and deformed. ➡️Buy swan plants and plant them around your school, business and community areas in a sunny sheltered spot. ➡️Plant nectar flowers at home, schools, community areas and business gardens. ➡️Spread the word and get school children and pre-schoolers involved from an early age having monarch butterflies around in classrooms and playgrounds. ➡️Educate people that the monarch butterfly is an endangered species and that we have to plant swan plants for monarchs to lay their eggs on so they can reproduce. ➡️Tag monarchs butterflies so we know more about there whereabouts. ➡️Buy a swan plant as a gift to a friend that has never raised monarchs before and add one of your spare caterpillars to the plant. I'm sure they will soon become addicted! ➡️If you think you haven't got enough plants for your caterpillars, remove the eggs. An average swan plant of 30 cm or 40 cm would only feed one caterpillar. You need to have quiet a few plants as spares, when your raising monarch caterpillars. ➡️Cover your swan plants that you purchase in Spring with a net, resist the temptation in letting the female butterfly lay her eggs on plants that are tiny and will only last few days once the caterpillar goes on a feeding mission. Let your plant get bushier with more leaves on, before removing the net. An average Monarch can lay around 400 eggs!! ➡️Conserve water, only water your plants in the evening or mornings. ➡️Let your lawns grow full of daisies & dandelions, the bees will love you for this, especially in areas where there is lack of nectar flowers. ➡️Lastly buy my excellent book so you can find out so much more!
Lola, a guardian and a voice for the Monarchs. The next generation will protect and care for this planet and all its species. Mid October is the start of school talks around New Zealand we are both pumped and cannot wait to spread our wings! . . Dress designed by @jo_kidd_couture #butterfly #monarchs #photoshoot #kids #newgeneration #nature #teaching #savethemonarchs #education #butterflies #dressup #mariposa #monarchbutterfly #monarca #wings #dress #model #kids
🌱🌱New life 🌱🌱New beginnings! 🌱🌱 . I planted these swan plant seeds 3 weeks and left them in my sons room where they get so much sunshine ☀️ . . This is my first batch of seedlings I’m not going to go crazy like last year and plant over 10,000!! Less is more as they say, but the hungry caterpillars 🐛 will have to not be as greedy. . . #spring #swanplants #milkweed #seeds #newzealand #newlife #sow #seedlings #butterfly #monarchs #caterpillar #savethemonarchs #soil
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