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2695 days ago

Swan plants without pesticides

Kathryn from Tutukaka Coast

Have you ever bought swan plants with pesticide on them and been dismayed to see your monarch caterpillars squirm and later die? The Monarch Butterfly New Zealand Trust is this year listing on their website garden centres that will never sell swan plants that have been sprayed with pesticides

www.monarch.org.nz...

You'll also find some of the other reasons why monarch caterpillars can die. Of course predators (wasps etc) can be a problem too and there are tips elsewhere on the website to help with those.

We hope to see many more beautiful monarch butterflies filling the skies this summer! Please feel free to share this with other Neighbourly communities.

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As a customer, what do you think about automation?
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