Monarchs
Oct 24, 2021 10:42:49 #
David Martin
Loc: Cary, NC
Recently we've been fortunate to have a few Monarchs visiting our garden nearly every day. We typically don't see them at all during the summer. I suspect they're on their southerly migration towards Mexico, although - unlike their spring migration northward - they usually don't venture this far east in the fall. Photos taken with Canon R5, 500mm, handheld; processed in C1, signature added in Affinity Photo. Comments welcomed and thanks for viewing.
Oct 24, 2021 10:56:30 #
Oct 24, 2021 11:05:19 #
David Martin wrote:
Recently we've been fortunate to have a few Monarchs visiting our garden nearly every day. We typically don't see them at all during the summer. I suspect they're on their southerly migration towards Mexico, although - unlike their spring migration northward - they usually don't venture this far east in the fall. Photos taken with Canon R5, 500mm, handheld; processed in C1, signature added in Affinity Photo. Comments welcomed and thanks for viewing.
Nice set David. Butterfly bushes have had it for this year so only a few butterflies around.
Oct 24, 2021 11:33:35 #
Beautiful shots. Just as an aside, not all Monarchs go to/from Mexico. I don't know about the east coast but there are several Monarch groves on the west coast. The ones I know of are Australian Gum tree groves that overwinter thousands of Monarch Butterflies.
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Oct 24, 2021 12:03:53 #
Reconvic
Loc: clermont Fl
My wife and I set up a garden and terrarium rife with milkweed for the Monarchs (we have 10 caterpillars in the terrarium that I am catering to now) ((voracious appetites)) .
Disappointing here in Florida that almost 50% of them are born with a protozoan parasite that cripples them...I guess nature can be cruel sometimes....Nice shots of a newborn male!!
Disappointing here in Florida that almost 50% of them are born with a protozoan parasite that cripples them...I guess nature can be cruel sometimes....Nice shots of a newborn male!!
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Oct 25, 2021 12:03:16 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
David Martin wrote:
Recently we've been fortunate to have a few Monarchs visiting our garden nearly every day. We typically don't see them at all during the summer. I suspect they're on their southerly migration towards Mexico, although - unlike their spring migration northward - they usually don't venture this far east in the fall. Photos taken with Canon R5, 500mm, handheld; processed in C1, signature added in Affinity Photo. Comments welcomed and thanks for viewing.
Nice shots of the Monarchs
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