Last week showed improvement with several days bright and sunny. It was on one of those days that I visited the area of Muriwai Beach, Auckland, where a large colony of Coastal Copper Butterflies reside. Their host plant, Muehlenbeckia, grows profusely in the clifftop location and was looking healthy and lush. Some of the plants were flowering and will continue like this all Summer
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