NZ’s summer insects are packing up for autumn – here’s how our gardens can help them through the cold months
- Written by Janice Lord, Associate Professor in Botany, University of Otago
Chillier mornings and higher heating bills aren’t the only signs of the changing seasons. Common insects, too, are having to adapt. One day we see them in our gardens and parks, the next they appear to have disappeared.
But most are still here – they’re just harder to find.
Overwintering is an adaptation that many plants, insects...