Brightwings Butterflies

Brightwings Butterflies is rated 3 out of 5 in the category renewables & environment. Read and write reviews about Brightwings Butterflies. Brightwings Butterflies supplies Monarch butterflies for release at weddings, funerals, corporate launches and other special occasions. Other New Zealand lepidoptera are raised for conservation release. Butterflies and associated products can be delivered anywhere in New Zealand. The business is based in the Waikato, and the major geographic markets are Auckland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty. At present, this is a sole-trader business. As with any farming operation, a large part of the business investment is in feed production, in this case growing the hostplant Gomphocarpus fruticosus and Asclepias curassavica. There is an online shopfront, but the business growth is expected to come via wedding planners, celebrants and photographers and funeral professionals. New products are acrylic spheres which enable the metamorphosis from chrysalis to butterfly to be clearly viewed and then the butterfly released. These will be promoted as Christmas baubles initially.