Talk:New Zealand red admiral

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Regarding the NZ Red Admiral, I am with the Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust, an organisation which is very concerned about phone calls from New Zealanders that love the Monarch, to the effect that they (callers) don't see as many Monarchs as they used to. Then, in conversation, they would add that they don't see as many of NZ's other butterflies as they once did. Accordingly the MBNZ Trust is embarking on two surveys this summer - transects of NZ butterflies/diurnal moths and also tagging of Monarch butterflies.

More reports come in every day that there are concerns about the loss of butterflies (pollinators) worldwide - so it seems that our project is timely. We welcome inquiries from other people in NZ who would like to become involved, more information on www.monarch.org.nz.

In our presentations and workshops, we have been describing the Red Admiral (NZ) as Vanessa gonerilla gonerilla - but today were advised by a prominent Landcare entomologist that it is correctly named Bassaris gonerilla - which is correct? We dont want to "mislead" people that we're trying to educate!

Comments welcome - here or by email to the MBNZT. Madambutterfly 01:42, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't know if you are still watching this page four years later. I am in New Plymouth and see a reasonable number of Monarch butterflies. I have only seen one red admiral and one yellow admiral in the last couple of years. (Of course they are almost impossible to spot if at rest). Ongaonga is hardly the sort of plant that people are likely to encourage, so the admirals are likely suffering from loss of food source. dramatic (talk) 20:10, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

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