Another memory that I share fondly, is coming home from school and finding out front lawn almost white, covered in the brown-veined white butterflies. I would eagerly jump out of the car and spend my afternoon in the company of the gentle creatures. However, it seems to me that the number of butterflies that have visited over the last few years has decreased significantly, although according to van der Walt (2016:[sp]) depending on climate conditions, numbers will differ. These butterflies, just like the wasps and bees in my garden, help with pollination by collecting and carrying pollen on their bodies. Van der Walt (2016) states that these butterflies while flying, will continuously lay eggs, and will continue to lay eggs once they have reached their destination where they will die. Once their eggs hatch, they will feed on the plants that are native to the ecosystems that they are born in, and they will live there until it is time for them to go through the metamorphosis-process into butterflies, and make their own emigration to warmer parts of the country. Insect-eating birds and some dragonflies will follow these white butterflies during their emigration and will prey on butterflies that are slower. These butterflies play a vital role in South Africa’s ecology: they act as natural controllers of certain plants when they are larvae, they help with pollination, and they are food to other predator insects. If environmental issues begin to affect the temperatures and seasons in South Africa, these butterflies’ emigrations could be delayed, disruption the food cycle that they are a part of. If environments start increasing in temperature, perhaps the kaleidoscope of butterflies might split up into smaller groups, interrupting other ecosystems that they were not part of before.