This website shows some amazing photos of butterflies in the sky. Millions of them!
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/monarch/FallFlightMXCalvert101704.html
Monarch Butterflies: Journey North
Description of the Monarch's journey
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/monarch/MigrationPathwayMexico.html
Glad to see someone interested in the Monarch's. I raised quite a few last year and quickly became infatuated with them. This year I had plenty of milkweed but no eggs on it. I did get to raise 9 eggs that I found at my parents. They are still feeding in my beds. I have seen some starting to fly past me now tho. I think it was about this time last year that they came by on their way to Mexico.
Doesn't it jes thrill your soul to find the cats feeding on your Butterfly Weed !?!
Very nice pic too !!
- Magpye
They do thrill me! These were actually out on a "field trip" tho! I had them inside feeding on leaves, then decided they had to go out on a real plant and eat standing up. I put them on this plant and they ate it to the ground in less than 12 hrs. I moved them to another plant and they did the same to it. Apparently I was right, that they eat better in their natural position. This is a pic of my cage. I turned it upside down with the plant inside.
