Insects

[Oaktavia]

My wife and I purchased several milkweed plants last year locally. They established themselves last year with some tiger swallowtail and various other small moths and insects, but I didn't see any monarchs. I went down to that part of the property yesterday to check on them and immediately saw a monarch on it this year! Woohoo! The milkweed are thriving as well really big and popping now. Hopefully we get some baby caterpillars sometime soonish.

Edit: strange, not sure what is going on on the third photo. I can assure you the monarch was intact.

[GoodtimeJohnny]

@Oaktavia casualty of the background blur, nonetheless beautiful!

[Oaktavia]

@GoodtimeJohnny ah yes the "portrait mode" flubbed it up.

[twin]

@Oaktavia Doing the right thing for nature.

[Oaktavia]

@twin I do what I can

[SFMCfranky]

Putting on a show this morning.

[Oaktavia]

@SFMCfranky beeautiful

[nurunuru]

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. I'm usually way more Team Moth than Team Butterfly, but this one was massive and just generally very impressive.

[SKT]

I think black swallowtail

[ARNC]

I spotted this guy through my bathroom window. Unfortunately he was a bit camera shy and flew away when I tried to get a shot from the other side. Possibly a Jersey Tiger.