Captured this beautiful little specimen at my place of employment here in Madison Indiana. These are one of my favorite butterflies their color is brilliant in their wings patterns and when they do take the time to rest they show off their amazing profile for everyone to see.
The fields around out hospital have so many wildflowers and butterflies it almost seems you are in some hidden prairie somewhere out in the plains . The only problem is it does need to be mowed now and then and I am hoping they wait a bit more because it has a incredible amount of goldenrod and the Monarchs will be migrating thru soon.
And this wildflower is one of their most attractive sources for nectar that helps get them thru on their long journey to Mexico.
Thanks for taking a look.
Beautiful and cool, somehow.
Thank you !!
Beautiful! I love the colors and the pattern also. Great capture!
Thank you !!
Very nice, Bernie. Missed these this year. They usually lay eggs on our parsley and we have a lot of cats but not this year.
We had a couple late freezes that really put a hurt on the butterflies this year but they did rebound late this summer and seemed to have recovered nicely.
Awesome pic! I have released 15 Black Swallowtails so far and have about 15 left to emerge. Also have released 25 Monarchs and have about 20 left.
Thats great thanks for stopping by !!