Numbers of the gorgeously-tinted monarch butterflies have been noticed on sunny days in the native bush at Titirangi, Auckland, recently, the insects appearing sometimes singly and sometimes in pairs. From the frequency with which they appear they seem to be increasing in this district. The butterflies seem especially to favour the foliage of the young kauri trees as a haunt, and they are almost invisible against that background.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 March 1939, Page 11
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