Conservation Week

It is Conservation Week so today we visited the Nowell’s Lakes Walkway at Hawera to plant Swan Plants.  These plants will attract the brightly coloured Monarch Butterfly who will lay their eggs on these plants.  The caterpillars that hatch will feed off the Swan Pant to grow to latter turn into a butterfly's.  Doug told us that Wild Flowers have been planted at the Walkway to give the butterfly’s food also as they like the sweet nectar that these Wild Flowers have  -  Click on the "Conservation" page above