January 14, 2013 - Monarch Butterfly

CaliforniaMama · 01-14-2013, 04:21 PM

Monarch Butterfly - what a beauty!

from Remembering Letter and Postcards

Sundae · 01-14-2013, 04:56 PM

Pretty, pretty.
See so few in this area now. We used to have so many on our buddlia that we called it the butterfly bush.

Trilby · 01-14-2013, 05:53 PM

I know---they used to be all over. Now I see one every other year or so. It's so sad.

ZenGum · 01-14-2013, 07:30 PM

I see a fair few around.

Deep fried in batter, delicious!

xoxoxoBruce · 01-15-2013, 05:53 AM

I hope you're saving the wings for the tossed salad, and just frying the bods.

SPUCK · 01-15-2013, 06:49 AM

We have a couple million show up every year during their migration. They hang, in big piles, on the u cal a pee dus trees down by the beach. They even built wooden walkways out into the swamp where the trees are.

ZenGum · 01-15-2013, 07:22 AM

Butterflies built a goddamn walkway???

Trilby · 01-15-2013, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum

Butterflies built a goddamn walkway???

they're American butterflies. It's sink or swim over here.

Sundae · 01-15-2013, 11:40 AM

Diz is a one-cat butterfly genocide.
He loves them for the flap flap flap.
He never even gets to the crunch because the dust on the wings makes him sneezely.

Bearing in mind he has only lived here for three years I doubt he has been instrumental in the butterfly decline, but I don't rule him out completely.

CaliforniaMama · 01-15-2013, 12:26 PM

It's very cool when they hang in clusters so thick it looks like a tree trunk until one of them moves!

Photographer Sylvia Latham

from Here & Now

CaliforniaMama · 01-15-2013, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Sundae

Diz is a one-cat butterfly genocide.
He loves them for the flap flap flap.
He never even gets to the crunch because the dust on the wings makes him sneezely.

Bearing in mind he has only lived here for three years I doubt he has been instrumental in the butterfly decline, but I don't rule him out completely.

They fine for harming the Monarchs where I grew up.

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City Ordinance No. 352 makes it a misdemeanor to kill or threaten a butterfly, punishable by a $1000 fine.

Even if kitty does it!

SPUCK · 01-16-2013, 06:07 AM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum

Butterflies built a goddamn walkway???

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they're American butterflies. It's sink or swim over here.

ZenGum · 01-16-2013, 07:06 AM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum

I see a fair few around.

Deep fried in batter, delicious!

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I hope you're saving the wings for the tossed salad, and just frying the bods.

I should have posted the full recipe.

Melt some butter, mix lemon juice, add egg and breadcrumbs.
Dip Monarch Butterflies (whole) in this and deep fry.
Serve while still warm for delicious bitter butter batter butterflies.

Thanks folks, I'll be here all week, try the centipede.

infinite monkey · 01-16-2013, 09:24 AM

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City Ordinance No. 352 makes it a misdemeanor to kill or threaten a butterfly, punishable by a $1000 fine.

Threaten a butterfly?

"Why you old fuck, Imma go get my homies and we're gonna come back and pop a cap in your butterflyin' ass!"

Monarch and Viceroy butterflies are very similar. Just your factoid for the day.

glatt · 01-16-2013, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Monarch and Viceroy butterflies are very similar. Just your factoid for the day.

I had no idea.

01-14-2013, 04:21 PM	#1
CaliforniaMama I wonder . . . Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: The Left Coast, a pretty good place to be. Posts: 1,278	January 14, 2013 - Monarch Butterfly Monarch Butterfly - what a beauty! from Remembering Letter and Postcards

01-14-2013, 04:56 PM	#2
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Pretty, pretty. See so few in this area now. We used to have so many on our buddlia that we called it the butterfly bush. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

01-14-2013, 05:53 PM	#3
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	I know---they used to be all over. Now I see one every other year or so. It's so sad. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

01-14-2013, 07:30 PM	#4
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	I see a fair few around. Deep fried in batter, delicious! __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

01-15-2013, 05:53 AM	#5
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I hope you're saving the wings for the tossed salad, and just frying the bods. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-15-2013, 06:49 AM	#6
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	We have a couple million show up every year during their migration. They hang, in big piles, on the u cal a pee dus trees down by the beach. They even built wooden walkways out into the swamp where the trees are.

01-15-2013, 07:22 AM	#7
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Butterflies built a goddamn walkway??? __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

01-15-2013, 11:40 AM	#9
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Diz is a one-cat butterfly genocide. He loves them for the flap flap flap. He never even gets to the crunch because the dust on the wings makes him sneezely. Bearing in mind he has only lived here for three years I doubt he has been instrumental in the butterfly decline, but I don't rule him out completely. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

01-15-2013, 12:26 PM	#10
CaliforniaMama I wonder . . . Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: The Left Coast, a pretty good place to be. Posts: 1,278	It's very cool when they hang in clusters so thick it looks like a tree trunk until one of them moves! Photographer Sylvia Latham from Here & Now __________________ Take time for silence. You never know what you might hear.

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