Nearly 40 years ago, Norm Twigge set out into the bush to find his first forest ringlet butterfly. "I was all geared up to sight this wonderful butterfly," he says. "But I traipsed all over Mount Ruapehu without finding a single one. I went home verydejected."The next year, Norm spotted several butterflies, and the Tauranga-based conservationist and entomologistbegan a lifelong hobby of studying the forest ringlet, often considered the most beautiful of New Zealand's dozen or so endemic butterfly species.
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