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bleedinglib

(212 posts)

12. I live in

Reply to WhiteTara (Original post)

Sun Oct 8, 2017, 12:57 AM

Oct 2017

So. West Missouri & I'm preparing my yard to support Butterflies next season !!
All the pollinators we depend on feed on pollen producing plants !! Hummingbirds, bumble bees
just about any insect carries life producing pollen !!
Man is responsible for the damage done to our environment? We should do all we can to repair it !!! Enjoy the show

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Here is an ocean of butterflies, 70 miles wide, captured on radar over Colorado [View all] WhiteTara Oct 2017 OP

Wish your sig line could be mailed out to every single US citizen eligible to vote. nt eppur_se_muova Oct 2017 #1

Thanks. I wrote a column based on it. WhiteTara Oct 2017 #4

We had so many painted lady butterflies a few weeks ago that when I pulled into the drive, SharonClark Oct 2017 #2

Wow! I bet that was incredible WhiteTara Oct 2017 #6

OMG! I have wondered all week why there were so many butterflies ProudLib72 Oct 2017 #3

Are you in Colorado too? WhiteTara Oct 2017 #8

Lakewood, CO nt ProudLib72 Oct 2017 #16

That sounds so magical. WhiteTara Oct 2017 #18

It wasn't just in my neighborhood ProudLib72 Oct 2017 #19

We're just south of Crown Hill Lake here in north Lakewood eleny Oct 2017 #21

Just got back from Matthews Winters park ProudLib72 Oct 2017 #25

We had way less flying around the yard yesterday eleny Oct 2017 #27

Just got home from work ProudLib72 Oct 2017 #33

Oh, no. Poor little one eleny Oct 2017 #34

Also in CO....it was awesome... Satch59 Oct 2017 #5

Oh that must have been wonderful! WhiteTara Oct 2017 #7

It must have been a really good year for Painted Lady butterflies The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2017 #9

Kaleidoscope 7wo7rees Oct 2017 #17

What a wonderful term! WhiteTara Oct 2017 #24

Thanks for link!!!!!! burrowowl Oct 2017 #10

Cool! Lucinda Oct 2017 #11

I live in bleedinglib Oct 2017 #12

MO Conservation department WhiteTara Oct 2017 #14

(in a sing-song voice) ... Jopin Klobe Oct 2017 #13

blue shifted KG Oct 2017 #15

I think they became "lost" during the darkness of the eclipse a few weeks ago? kentuck Oct 2017 #20

Witchcraft, plain and simple Blue_Tires Oct 2017 #22

Of course! WhiteTara Oct 2017 #23

Not many in SE Pennsylvania this year, rogerashton Oct 2017 #26

Years ago TuxedoKat Oct 2017 #28

St louis is just off the main migration WhiteTara Oct 2017 #29

Sadly TuxedoKat Oct 2017 #30

Milk weed and butterfly weed are actually the same thing WhiteTara Oct 2017 #31

A little patch of butterfly weed down the hill has spread over the years to Hortensis Oct 2017 #32