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Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on October 22, 2019, 07:41 AM:
Enough with the politics.
I got bugs. Flying bugs.
Some kind of 3/4 sized Monarch Butterfly bugs in the bushes out on my archery range.
Totally cool !!!!! ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on October 22, 2019, 09:16 AM:
Interesting! I had the same thing, must have been more than two months ago. These orange critters were everywhere! I would sit out front and watch them fly, always the same direction, due west. This went on for weeks, No flittering around with no purpose, these guys all wanted to get somewhere before dark. A huge migration and I might have been the only one that noticed? I also noticed the skill of Mockingbirds that would grab an orange butterfly in midair. All for free!
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on October 22, 2019, 04:32 PM:
Actually look like monarchs, or just similar?
Last year, we had a record hatch of Painted Ladies butterflies. Some brown, some orange, a spot. No matter where you were in this state, if you were on the ground or below an altitude of 30 feet, you were surrounded by them. Driving down the interstate and the front of the car was just goo. Took about two weeks for them to pass through.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on October 22, 2019, 06:12 PM:
What we had here was not mistaking of actual Monarchs. Let's just say they were orange and had some black and were half the size. But, there were so many and it was every day, all day long. How many days? Wild ass guess, 20 straight days., but I'm confident it was more than 2 weeks, at least.
I remember one time down along southern California, and close to Westmorland. Ordinary white butterflies, again all headed in the same direction, which was sort of north. Clogging radiators, big time! I couldn't begin to guess how many, so lets just say millions! This was a huge agricultural area, it was kinda amazing!
Goos hunting. El Bee
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on October 22, 2019, 06:59 PM:
Pretty much the ones that Leonard described. Lacking the white trim that I seem to remember Monarchs having.
Nothing like the swarms you guys are talking about. Just bunches of 'em feeding on the blossums on the bushes.
Probably I'm on the edge of their migration route or home range.
Still pretty cool, but then, I'm easily amused.
Posted by Paul Melching (Member # 885) on October 23, 2019, 03:56 AM:
I had them little buggers out here in spades not Monarchs which I also had but very close as KOKO noted no white trim ! And half the size or less !
I get the hose out and water the ground and they come right in they drink through their feet !
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