Possible monarch butterfly
July 26, 2025
wildlife, observations, lepidoptera, milkweed | permalink
One of the things I wrote down to do today was to go out and look for Monarch caterpillars, since I've seen a few people on the fediverse post pictures of them recently. Well, no caterpillars, but I'm about 90% sure I saw a butterfly around the milkweeds in the front yard. There's a slim chance that it was the eastern tiger swallowtail I saw yesterday, but I don't think so: this one seemed more orange than yellow and its behavior was definitely different. I couldn't get within five feet of it to take a picture - it would just flit away, sometimes pretty high in the air, and the circle back around. Hopefully it laid some eggs!
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