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Something for chico2...and anyone else who wants a peek...
hazel went to the Butterfly House at the Beaver Creek Reserve today
and was reminded of chico2 everywhere she turned. chico, you'd love this place!! There were monarchs everywhere! There were monarchs on parsley... ...on asters... ...and on lantana.
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There were old monarchs...
...and young monarchs.
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Cools pics.
I haven't seen any monarchs around this year. I want to know where they're at Maybe it's partially because I don't have many flowers this year. My petunias croaked when it hit 107 degrees awhile back and I didn't replace them. My hostas went downhill when it got to 107 too, but they're perking back up again and flowering. Usually I see some butterflies around my hummingbird feeders but all I'm seeing are hummingbirds and not even many of them this year |
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We've had an exceptionally moderate summer, though, MBIE, and we haven't seen monarchs in any great numbers, either. I have to go to the Reserve to see them Hummingbirds, however, are another matter. We're still hanging nectar for the migrating birds--the migration is starting to wind down, though. Going through less than a gallon of nectar a day now.
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There were monarchs on lobelia.
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The black-eyed susans were hosting a few...
...as were the hollyhocks... ...and a few monarchs even visited the nectar feeders.
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But mostly, there were monarchs on the Joe-Pye weed!
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Wow that's a lot of Monarchs! Do they have other kinds of bflys there too?
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madame hazel is going to try to remind me to get some Joe-Pye weed for the garden next year...
I couldn't believe how the monarchs went after it! Once the season is over (I think the week after Labor Day), they take the mesh cover off the butterfly house and let the butterflies go. The monarchs will fly south to Mexico and return next year. So maybe next spring, some of these very monarchs will stop at your house, chico!
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