Acknowledgements, Links & References

Attapon Tansakul, my partner who has taken some great photo's for this website.

Auckland Museum kindly let me photograph their collection.

Byron Radford kindly let me use his photo of the Common Tussock to use on the website.

Hiro Numata kindly let me use some of his photo's from his website, Milford Track Photogallery

Jérôme Albre kindly let me use his photo's of the Rauparaha's Copper to use on the website.

John Early kindly let me use his photo's of the Lesser Wanderer Pupae.

Landcare Research kindly let me use some of their photo's from their collection & website.

Mike Lusk kindly let me use his photo's of the Common Copper (Variations), Forest Ringlet larva & Painted Lady to use on the website.

Peter kindly took the second photo to follow up on a infected Yellow Admiral Pupa that I had found a couple of months before.

Taffy Parry kindly sent me her photo of the Common Copper (Mountain Variation) to use on the website.

Trisha Allan contributed to the About the Author page & is presently proof-reading the site.

Tony Wills kindly let me use his photo's of the Glade Copper to use on the website.

Vicky Steele kindly let me use her photo of a Yellow Admiral Pupae & contributed to the About the Author page.

Zoe kindly let me use her photo of a Lesser Wanderer Larvae.

A beginners guide to Nettles is a guide put together about the different types of Nettle (Urtica Spp) that can be found in New Zealand. A beginners guide to Nettles

BubuLeps.com is a photographic album of Butterflies around the world. The latest addition is New Zealand, which will have more photos added to it in throughout the summer of 2009-10. BubuLeps.com

Butterfly Gardening at The Village is a site written about a butterfly garden that was designed for a preschool. Butterfly Gardening at The Village

Butterflies of Australia is a site aimed at Australian Butterflies. It gives descriptions with great photo's. Butterflies of Australia

Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust are a useful source of information on raising Monarch & Admiral butterflies. Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust

NZ admiral is a network developed to share information about raising & protecting Native New Zealand Yellow & Red Admirals. NZadmiral

NZ Biodiversity Recording Network is a online nature recording system where you can record your observations for birds, plants, fungi, frogs, geckos, skink, butterflies, insects & mammals. New Zealand Biodiversity Recording Network

Te Ara encyclopedia of New Zealand has a section on New Zealand Butterflies including how they fit into our culture & society. Te Ara

TOS Monarchs is a group for those people interested in the Monarch butterfly at the top of the South Island. TOS Monarchs

Websites

Australian-Insects.com Natural History Museum's Global Lepidoptera Names Index Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust Forums South Australian Butterflies Te Ara Encyclopaedia of New Zealand - Butterflies & moths - Long-tailed blue butterfly The New Zealand Entomologist, 1968, Volume 4 #1 Flight periods & sex ratios of New Zealand Coppers (Lycaenidae) by JEC Flux, The New Zealand Entomologist, 1970, Volume 4 #4 The life history of the Black Mountain Ringlet butterfly by GW Gibbs The New Zealand Entomologist, 1976, Volume 6 #2 The Flight Period of Dodonidia helmsii by RC Craw The New Zealand Entomologist, 1978, Volume 6 #4 Damage to Pasture Legumes by Larvae of the Common Blue, Zizina otis labradus by R East, KN Watson & RD Welsh The New Zealand Entomologist, 1980, Volume 7 #2 Some records of butterflies, grasshoppers, and crickets in the Urewera National Park by RL Brock The New Zealand Entomologist, 1982, Volume 7 #3 The Australian painted lady butterfly, Cynthia kershawi, in Dunedin, 1980-1981 by AC Harris Tree of Life web project UK Butterflies

Books

A Field Companion to the Butterflies of Australia & NZ by Bernard D'Abrera, 1984. Five Mile Press. ISBN 0 86788 020 1

A Photographic Guide To Insects of New Zealand by Brian Parkinson, 2007. ISBN 978-1-86966-151-9 Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand by Brian Parkinson & Brian Patrick, 2000. ISBN 0 7900 0734 7

Butterflies of NZ by WBR Laidlaw. 1970. Collins Bros & Co.

Catherine Hamilton's Butterflies of New Zealand by Catherine Hamilton, 1982. David Bateman Ltd. ISBN 0 908610 11 4

Evolution of The Insects by David Grimaldi & Michael S Engel, 2005. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-52182-149-0 Forest & Bird Feb 1999 (Issue 291), p28-31 (Once in a Blue Moon) by P Maddison & M Resister.

How to attract Butterflies to your garden by Densely Cline, 1990. Reed. ISBN 0 7301 0330 7

NZ Butterflies - Identification & Natural History by GW Gibbs. 1980. William Collins Publishers Ltd. ISBN 0 00 216955 X

Which New Zealand Insect by Andrew Crowe, 2002. Penguin. ISBN 0 14 100636 6