It has been two weeks since I bought a butterfly bush and up until now it
>hasn't been visited by anything. For those past two weeks I've been
>constantly looking out the window hoping to see something on it but I never
>did. But today when I looked out the window, I saw a monarch butterfly on
>the bush. I ran to go get my camera and when I turned it on it said low
>battery. So I just took pictures really quickly before the battery ran out
>or the butterfly flew away. I was able to get these two pictures before the
>butterfly flew away
>
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. They are not
>that great but I'm just happy something visited my plant. Now with new
>batteries, I'm ready for it when it comes back.
I get "This album has been marked as private." Could you de-privatize it so we can see the pics?
I am now waiting for a black swallowtail 'pillar to cocoon in my kitchen (in a jar). Went out the other day and found my parsley being eaten to bare stubs, so I put the caterpillars into a jar with some more parsley. I did this years ago and produced several pretty butterflies.
Coincidentally, I also saw my first Monarch of the season yesterday flying below an upstairs window. Camera too far away and butterfly too fast. I understand *their* favorite plant is milkweed, and I wouldn't mind growing some for them. After all, I'm not going to compete for milkweed the way I do for parsley (and dill). :-)