Reported via nzButterfly.info Sighting report (http://nzbutterfly.info/sighting-report.htm).
How many = 1

Reporters comments:
"Hi interested to see a new butterfly at westport nz recently.description.large with black & white markings.friendly too.it landed on my head!"

Reported via nzButterfly.info Sighting report (http://nzbutterfly.info/sighting-report.htm).
How many = 1
Activity = Flying/Feeding
Habitat = Garden

Reporters comments:
"My brother also sent me a photo of one he saw in his garden in Kaiata (Greymouth, west coast) last week."

Reported via nzButterfly.info Sighting report (http://nzbutterfly.info/sighting-report.htm).
How many = 2
Activity = Flying/Feeding
Habitat = Garden
Gender = Female

Reporters comments:
"We have been seeing Blue Moon females around Karamea on the west coast. For the last two to three weeks. Specifically I have seen two times in our own garden in Granite Creek."

Reported via nzButterfly.info Sighting report (http://nzbutterfly.info/sighting-report.htm).
Activity = Flying
Habitat = Garden

Reporters comments:
"We have been seeing Blue Moon females around Karamea on the west coast. For the last two to three weeks. Specifically I have seen multiple times in a
friends garden in Karamea township"

Reported via nzButterfly.info Sighting report (http://nzbutterfly.info/sighting-report.htm).
How many = 1
Activity = Flying
Habitat = Native Bush

Reporters comments:
"I spotted a Blue Moon/Eggfly butterfly at Kohaihai Carpark, West Coast. Healthy, flying strongly, saw one at a time but felt there may have been more than one. It was moving too quickly to get a photo but at one stage it landed among the trampers assembled there. Date spotted 11.03.18 at 1.00pm."

Reported via nzButterfly.info Sighting report (http://nzbutterfly.info/sighting-report.htm).
How many = 1
Activity = Flying/Feeding
Habitat = Garden
Gender = Male

Reporters comments:
"Saw a male "blue moon" butterfly yesterday feeding on our zinnias and calendulas. I have pictures that I took using my ipad. [Requested - Robert] We live in the Pohangina Valley, just 15 minutes north of the Manawatu Gorge and of Ashhurst. (So this is the Western side of the Rhuahine Mountain Range.)"

Reported via nzButterfly.info Sighting report (http://nzbutterfly.info/sighting-report.htm).
How many = 1
Activity = Flying/Feeding
Habitat = Garden

Reporters comments:
"I saw a butterfly today that I've never seen before fluttering through our garden.
Large, size & shape rather like a monarch but black in colour splattered with large
white spots. I didn't get a photo. I live in Motueka."

Reported via nzButterfly.info Sighting report (http://nzbutterfly.info/sighting-report.htm).
Activity = Flying
Habitat = Garden

Reporters Comment:
"Flying in our garden, visiting flowers. First sighting since we moved here 3yrs ago."

Reported via nzButterfly.info Sighting report (http://nzbutterfly.info/sighting-report.htm).
Activity = Flying
Time of day = mid morning
Habitat = Coastal

Reporters Comment:
"Blue moon butterfly spotted marine parade north Piha . Time mid morning. Have photo."