My tattered monarch butterfly continues to return day in and day out. Her favorite nectar is from my white zinnia flowers.
She makes me think of resilience. A little beat up, but she continues on.
My girl returns
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Perfect spot
A huge perk of planting a butterfly garden by your front door is where caterpillars choose to make its chrysalis – right by the front door.
A monarch chrysalis.
The queen
It has been a long time since the Queen Butterfly has visited the garden.
This beauty also uses milkweed to lay its eggs. It moved between my milkweed and the blooms on the wild lime tree.
It is a little smaller than the monarch with a wingspan between 6.7-9.8 cm. The wings are a mahogany coloring with black borders and small white spots.
Just a few
A monarch kind of day
Honestly, what’s better than taking a stroll through the garden and seeing the lifecycle of a butterfly unfold right before your eyes?
There was a monarch butterfly stopping on the giant milkweed, and then scattered throughout were caterpillars having a feast on the leaves.
