monarch butterflies

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my lovely swan plants have been totally covered by these hungry beings

so i watched and waited to see if they would eat the whole plant

ok this one is totally fed up and is going away

so thats what it is up to sleeping the feed off

surprise its woken up and turned into some thing very beautiful

these butterflies have no predators and are very tame some times wintering over in a flower garden allowing you to gently pick them up and feed them with sugar or honey.

so here it is on my arm as i sent it on its way after its wings had dried out

19 Apr, 2010
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Healerwitch

oh how glorious! What a wonderful gift Mother Nature has given you!

20 Apr, 2010

Hywel

They are very pretty, bothe the caterpillar and the butterfly

20 Apr, 2010

Pamg

oh how beautiful quite magical to see :o)
---love the one looking over the fence--

20 Apr, 2010

Heron

Difficult balance there, If would be so nice to enjoy both the lovely plant as well as the butterfly. I think I'd squish all but one caterpillar. :-))

20 Apr, 2010

Jacque

Wonderful Blog PDad:)

20 Apr, 2010

Piersdad

the plants survive ok they seem to know when to migrate to another plant.
i planted several as i knew the lovely monsters will be along.

20 Apr, 2010

Megan75

They are just so pretty.

20 Apr, 2010

Sanbaz

lovely pics piersdad, how lovely to be able to pick them up to,, even the caterpillars are pretty ;o))

21 Apr, 2010

Piersdad

they advertise that they are poisonous to eat so the birds leave them alone
so they are brightly colored for that reason.
hence they will allow you to pick them up as they are not afraid of any thing.

21 Apr, 2010