Amy’s response to this week’s challenge inspired me to dig up the following photos of Monarch butterflies feasting on goldenrods. I took them four years ago at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia. Monarch butterflies seem to be disappearing, and they need all the help we can give them.
Monarch butterflies
Monarch butterfly on goldenrod flowers
Monarch feasting on goldenrods
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/gone-but-not-forgotten/
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Well put, the monarchs need all the help we can give them. Plant more milkweed! Your photos are stunning.
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Very sad, and puzzling too. Nice post.
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Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate your comments.
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Beautiful!
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Beautiful colours!!
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Thank you!
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Gorgeous photos. So full of color and life. Wonderful on a winter night.
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Thanks, Sue, and yes, these colors will help warm a winter night.
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Gorgeous capture and image!
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Thank you, Greg!
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They have always looked to me as if someone has drawn them onto a photo – the design details of their colouring are simply amazing. Aren’t these the ones that cluster in their millions somewhere in South America, Hien …?
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Monarch butterflies live in North America from Canada to Mexico, and they do form giant clusters hanging from trees. I’ve only seen clusters of hundreds of them many years ago, I think it was 1976, in California. In more recent years, with their numbers declining, those clusters are becoming uncommon. Thank you for stopping by and commenting.
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http://www.visitmexico.com/en/michoacan-where-monarch-butterflies-migrate
There we go, Hien ! 🙂
I was wrong – not SOUTH America but CENTRAL.
Sighh …
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Thank you for the link!
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My pleasure, my dear ! 🙂
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i’m totally in awe! One of the best butterfly captures I have ever seen! Thanks for the link, Hien 🙂
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Amy, I am the one to thank you for giving me the idea to look for these photos from four years ago, before I started blogginh.
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Reblogged this on Photos That Inspire Words.
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Thank you!
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You are welcome…you are a great photographer.
Paulette L Motzko
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Beautiful image… lovely entry for the challenge 🙂
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Thanks for stopping by and commenting Sreejith!
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