Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 6/6/2025 (lemmy.nz)

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Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

Something interesting that happened to you
Something humourous that happened to you
Something frustrating that happened to you
A quick question
A request for recommendations
Pictures of your pet
A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

How's it going this morning?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Report from today: they successfully hatched!!

So did another one from a chrysalis I hadn't even noticed as it's on a very scruffy tree that I thought had no caterpillars. I didn't get a photo because they must have hatched this morning and now won't keep still.

Hopefully they will get the memo that it's cold and not a lot to eat, and go and hibernate somewhere.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Yay!

These are monarch butterflies? Do our ones hibernate rather than migrate?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

They overwinter! There was an article just recently talking about how there are not as many Monarchs being spotted hibernating this winter: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/butterfly-experts-call-for-help-with-drop-in-monarch-butterfly-sightings-strange-winter-trend/W7ZMLXM7IZEDTCHTSGAM4B6QMU/

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Huh. I few weeks back I was in Hawera, and stopped at a park there. There was a tree absolutely swarming with what looked like monarchs. I managed to find a picture!

photo of many monarch butterflies swarming a tree