Fly free

Welcome to a section of my garden where I released six monarch butterflies in the middle of a sea of blanket flowers. 

Having a good March/April

The monarch butterflies are having a great March and April. There has been a lot of activity in the garden – eggs being laid, caterpillars chomping away.

Here’s the first, of a few monarch butterflies to emerge in the butterfly house.

The star . . . .

Today there were 5 monarch butterflies that emerged, one orange barred sulphur, and the star of the day, the polydamas swallowtail. The polydamas chrysalsis has been in the butterfly house since late last year.

8 more

More monarchs – 8 – released today from the butterfly house. Some were eager to fly free, while others I put on a tree branch giving them the chance to fly away when ready.

A female monarch.