The Department of Conservation has put a bounty on the heads of the great white butterfly.
DOC has issued a $10 reward for each great white butterfly that is caught in the Nelson region during the school holidays.
The offer is open to both children and adults are DOC are encouraging people to catch and kill the butterflies and bring them in to claim their bounty.
Conservation Minister Nick Smith says the butterflies are a threat to endangered native plants, as well as plants like cabbage and broccoli.
DOC has issued a $10 reward for each great white butterfly that is caught in the Nelson region during the school holidays.
The offer is open to both children and adults are DOC are encouraging people to catch and kill the butterflies and bring them in to claim their bounty.
Conservation Minister Nick Smith says the butterflies are a threat to endangered native plants, as well as plants like cabbage and broccoli.
Female great white butterflies can lay as many as 750 eggs. that means that everyy butterfly killed potentially stops up to 750 more butterflies hatching.
DOC says that if you catch a butterfly it should be put in a jar or sealed plastic bag and and dropped off to the department’s Nelson office on weekdays between September 30 and October 11.
DOC says that if you catch a butterfly it should be put in a jar or sealed plastic bag and and dropped off to the department’s Nelson office on weekdays between September 30 and October 11.
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15 Responses
*loads shotgun* Lets do this.
I want to get a million
Wow so interesting
cool, i would love to do that
i wish they did it all over NZ
They should keep the butterflies alive.
it is very interesting how much they will pay for one butterly
cool
wow nice butter flies(*(*(*
You put a double y in every.
I think the Butterflys should live I know they eat our veges but if we get rid of them they will come extint.
They are just White butterfly’s the rest will live
Wow I wish I cold catch ten or more
Ohh so sad
cool 🙂