Ecol202: Great Canterbury Butterfly Hunt

As part of Lincoln University's Biological Diversity course (Ecol202), we run a series of Nature Journal exercises where students practise species identifications and monitoring techniques. Mission #1 is the Great Canterbury Butterfly Hunt, where everyone spends two 20 minute periods on warm sunny days in a garden counting butterflies. Students also record any associated caterpillar food plants at these sites and any flowers they see the butterflies visiting or think butterflies would like.

The nice project icon photo of a monarch is by 2011 student Thornton Scott.

See the Terms & Rules for instructions on how to enter the details of your observations.

For help, see this old video tutorial from Jon Sullivan on Vimeo. less ↑