January 14, 2013 - Monarch Butterfly

[SIZE="2"]Monarch Butterfly - what a beauty![/SIZE]

[SIZE="1"]from Remembering Letter and Postcards[/SIZE]

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.

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

I see a fair few around.



Deep fried in batter, delicious!

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

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.

Butterflies built a goddamn walkway???

ZenGum;848026 wrote:

Butterflies built a goddamn walkway???

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

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.

[SIZE="1"]It's very cool when they hang in clusters so thick it looks like a tree trunk until one of them moves![/SIZE]



Photographer Sylvia Latham



from Here & Now

Sundae;848059 wrote:

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.

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

Even if kitty does it!

ZenGum;848026 wrote:

Butterflies built a goddamn walkway???

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

:facepalm::lol2:

ZenGum;847958 wrote:

I see a fair few around.



Deep fried in batter, delicious!

xoxoxoBruce;848019 wrote:

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

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.

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

Threaten a butterfly? :lol:

"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.

infinite monkey;848333 wrote:

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

I had no idea.

mimics. it's what's not for dinner!

monarch==ptui!
viceroy==yummeh!

or so a little bird told me...

Hey Butty, ya got a problem there ?

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and here is a link to the "Plant a Seed" site