There’s only one host plant for a monarch butterfly—milkweed! Choose native varieties for your area such as common milkweed, butterfly weed, swamp milkweed and showy milkweed. Create a monarch haven ...

Jennifer Bradshaw with a male monarch butterfly, one of many she has tagged as part of a programme to track their movements. Photo by Stephen Jaquiery. Monarch butterflies have become Dunedin woman ...