Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
- A request for recommendations
- Pictures of your pet
- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
So one of the crysalis is getting near hatching time and I can see his/her wings. It wasn’t attached to anything very solid (I think it was on a leaf that someone else ate) so I went and tied on a lifeline for in case it breaks off when they are trying to hatch.
Very cold tonight though so I am a bit worried.
How’s it going this morning?
Report from today: they successfully hatched!!
So did another one from a chrysalis I hadn’t even noticed as it’s on a very scruffy tree that I thought had no caterpillars. I didn’t get a photo because they must have hatched this morning and now won’t keep still.
Hopefully they will get the memo that it’s cold and not a lot to eat, and go and hibernate somewhere.
Yay!
These are monarch butterflies? Do our ones hibernate rather than migrate?
They overwinter! There was an article just recently talking about how there are not as many Monarchs being spotted hibernating this winter: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/butterfly-experts-call-for-help-with-drop-in-monarch-butterfly-sightings-strange-winter-trend/W7ZMLXM7IZEDTCHTSGAM4B6QMU/
Huh. I few weeks back I was in Hawera, and stopped at a park there. There was a tree absolutely swarming with what looked like monarchs. I managed to find a picture!
Now I know what it was!
I… do not know. I will go out there and report back.