Lindales Butterfly World

John and I spent an hour or so this afternoon helping out at Butterfly World at Lindale.
This will be a great place to take kids once the plants have had chance to establish themselves and a great natural resource for the monarch butterflies.
Check out their website at http://www.butterflyworld.org.nz

This is a photo I took of one of the Monarchs laying her eggs on the swan plants. Unfortunately this is not a good thing at this stage in the program!

We helped create a corner bed and then planted it with Canna lillies.

Followed by a short session squashing caterpillar eggs and baby catterpillars from the young swan plants.

I know it sounds mean but the plants would just get shredded to pieces if they were left.