Wildlife: Insects, 4 by pollengarden

pollengarden wrote:
My version of a Butterfly bush - native Rabbitbrush, which ironically Rabbits don\'t eat.
Photos 1 & 2 were taken in October, and it is covered with various butterflies, which are hard to see wings folded. Photos 3 & 4 were taken in September, a Monarch and a Queen, which also eats milkweed. Photo 5 is of a large-leafed native milkweed in September with a Monarch catapillar in someone else\'s garden. So the returning Monarchs do sometimes lay a late batch of eggs. So maybe if I got better milkweed, I would get at least one batch of late Monarch caterpillars.