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Auckland Butterfly Garden

Red admiral butterfly

Red admiral butterfly

Piwakawaka / fantail

Piwakawaka / fantail

Site for the butterfly garden

Site for the butterfly garden

Red admiral butterfly

Red admiral butterfly

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Auckland Butterfly Garden

Creating a wildlife haven for New Zealand butterflies, bees and birds

Welcome

This blog records a personal journey as I create a butterfly garden on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand. I will also be helping the regeneration of native bush to create a beautiful habitat for local wildlife. Successes and failures, wins and losses, I'll record them here, as well as encounters with the wondrous life that calls Aotearoa home.

A diagram of anatomy of yellow legged hornet

A diagram of anatomy of yellow legged hornet

Hunting the hornet: Vespa velutina, the yellow-legged hornet

Yellow-legged hornets, Vespa velutina, have been found nearby and I try more traps and recipes for wasp capture

A barrel pond

A barrel pond

New barrel pond with NZ natives

I make a barrel pond with New Zealand native pond plants and there are already visitors!

A German wasp queen

A German wasp queen

The Great New Zealand Wasp Hunt

Killing wasps now saves butterflies. Find out the unusual place I found a paper wasp nest.

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