I tag my first monarch and see more tagged monarchs in the garden. Exciting!

I try out the Hawkeye wasp trap and lure starter pack. These traps look very familiar...

What flowers have been feeding butterflies in March?

I use the NoPests pink wasp lure and trap to target the new queens who should be mating now.

Yellow admirals have brought colour and energy at the changing of the season.

With autumn arriving, butterfly lovers have started tagging monarchs and they are appearing in my garden

Results of my Big Butterfly Count surveys and I try to fathom why I have butterflies while many haven't

Late summer flowers for butterflies? The long-flowering perennials just keep going.

California quail might be defined as a ground bird, but these North Shore birds like high places.

Red and yellow admirals find the flower garden, joining monarchs, blues and cabbage whites.

What are the best butterfly flowers for mid-summer in Auckland?

The wild weather has been a curse, but the silver lining has been relief for the butterflies & plants

A return visit to Franklin Farm butterfly house in Waimauku, west Auckland, inspires me.

An update on all the wins and losses recently in the garden: Butterflies, wildlife & plants

I am distracted by three new-to-me cicada species in the warm November weather, meaning the gardening didn't get done.

What's worse than a new wasp in the garden? Three more. Anterhynchium tamarinum is definitely established locally.

These are the flowers that the butterflies are really attracted to in the first month of summer.

Monarchs start visiting the butterfly garden and I start raising admirals alongside them

Anterhynchium tamarinum is not known to be established in NZ, but I caught one.

A couple of successful wasp trap lures plus loads that did not work. Plus a new wasp to contend with.