Butterflies thrive in our warm climate.
Swallowtails,
Cloudless Sulfurs,
and Gulf Fritillaries are locals.
Swallowtails mating.
Queen.
But the Monarchs are the show stoppers now.
They are a threatened species, so seeing them is a special treat.
Cheers to you from from the Southern California Flutterbyes~
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Love, love, love!
I <3 my friends who <3 butterflies დ
I watched a huge buttercup yellow butterfly as it navigated around the outside of the house a couple of days ago. Seemed to be on a mission.
I’m sure scientists must have studied the patterns of their flying, landing and sampling, but to me they look like shoppers on a big sale day, picking up a bit of this, and a lot of that! 😉
I like that!!!
🙂
Perfect pictures – again – of gorgeous butterflies.
Ahhh……so appreciated! Thank you & cheers დ
I often think of them as flutterbys, but have not anyone else call them that!
Now, we both can call them this!!! დდ
I love them all.
I <3 my friends who <3 butterflies დ
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Hello cindy, those are fantastic photos. Greetings to the States. Wolfgang
Greetings back to you and thank you for your most thoughtful comment დ
Not only birds but butterflies too love your paradise. 🙂
They go where the flowers are! დ
Beautiful photos!
Thank you very much Sharon.
St Martin’s in the Caribbean is particularly atttractive to the Monarchs.
I would love to see that დ
Flutterbyes are my favorite thing to watch. I love going to butterfly gardens. I took hundreds of photos at the one in Victoria BC when I was there, twice. 😉 I could have stayed all week. I planted for them too. Thanks so much for the beautiful photos.
Thank you more for appreciating our fluttery-friends Marlene & stay safe and well my friend დ
More beauties, love them. ♥
I <3 my friends who <3 butterflies დ
Gorgeous post, Cindy. Thank you
You are most welcome John & cheers to you დ
😁
Our butterflies have already moved on with the hard freezes having arrived.
Amazing to think of such fragile creatures migration such distances დ
I like your word “Flutterbyes”, and your photos are awesome, as usual.
Thank you very much. Most appreciated დ
Such a mesmerising clicks!
So happy you enjoyed them & thank you დ
Wonderful photos!!
Honored. Thank you very much & lovely to meet you დ
Lovely to meet you too!
Doesn’t seeing a butterfly make everyone feel good? Your photos are the next best thing, Cindy. I was always told by my husband’s family from Pennsylvania, that it was the Pennsylvania Dutch who called butterflies ‘flutterbyes’. The phrase makes perfect sense.
And all this time, I thought my kids made it up! Do the Pennsylvania Dutch call flamingos, flaming-goes too????? That was another from my kids 😉 😉
No, your kids didn’t make it up. And doesn’t it make more sense to say flutterby? I can’t confirm or deny flaming-goes. 😀
It certainly does, flaming-goes is better too!
Yes, it does!
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Beautiful
Grazie mille! დ
Hi Cindy, somehow I missed this post. These photographs are simply beautiful!
You have probably been unfollowed from me by WP! Everyone else has, some multiple times. Smiling….. Thank you sincerely Charles დ
Lovey, do you see the birds and butterflies near your home?
Oh yes, we live on a pomegranate orchard adjacent to a wildlife preserve so we have all kinds of wildlife here. დ
Beutiful colors🤩
Thank you!
This and the previous post — beautiful butterfly photos. Well done.
Thank you so much. Much appreciated & cheers to you დ
Your photos are beautiful! 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
Ahhh, thank you very much დ
You are so welcome
<3 <3
What a wonderful, whimsical name for these beauties! My five acres here in Ontario, Canada we call Butterfly Acres is filled with Monarchs every season for the last 24 years owing to our large population of milkweed that grows all on its own without any new plantings. We get the Swallowtails and Painted Ladies and lots of other little flutterbyes, too. Gorgeous photos!
It sounds wonderful! They are a joy in the garden. We used to get a lot of monarchs, but only a few each year now which is really sad დ
Thanks for sharing your beautiful photos!
Thank you for your very kind appreciation დ
Lepidoptera love! 🦋💙
I <3 my friends who <3 flutterbyes! დ
Beautiful butterfly photos Cindy. Years ago I went to a woodland in Santa Cruz where the monarchs were supposed to hang out, but there weren’t any! Seems the extra cold weather had sent them further south – very disappointing!
I liked it. Have you clicked the photos?
O wow .. this is beautiful
Very pleased you enjoyed & thank you დ
I don’t know much about butterflies but I just love how different each of these species appear. Not only in color and pattern but even their body structures.
Yes. Yet another miracle of nature დ
Wonderful photos. They are so cute, you’re lucky for having them around. 💚 💜
Happy you enjoyed them & thanks for stopping by! დ