Audience monarch photos | A Gallery from Summer Times | RNZ National

Listeners sent in their images of monarchs in their gardens after speaking to Jacqui Knight from the Monarch Butterfly New Zealand Trust about the seeming population explosion of them this summer.

Robyn Nuthall from Christchurch sent this photo

Ben Allen's monarch caterpillars

Ben Allen's monarch caterpillars

Robin Simenauer sent this image from their Ngaio garden

Bev Roach sent this this photo

Bev Roach sent this photo

Another shot by Ben Allen

An image from Ben Allen

A close up of a chrysalis from Ben Allen

Tony Willis saved this chrysalis after it detached by using a loop of copper wire embedded in a blob of construction adhesive stuck to the chrysalis. It successfully hatched!

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