totally gorgeous!!!! They migrate from Mexico to Santa Barbara.....and there are sanctuaries here...they cluster like this....it is astonishing!! they look like leaves....and then you can see ; they are butterflies clustering on the Eucalyptus leaves!!
They need milkweed! I plant Milkweed...and I find them laying their eggs...the caterpillars eat the leaves of the milkweed plant......(my gardener was horrified....I told him that was the point!)
Then the caterpillar makes a chrysalis and then the monarch butterfly emerges!
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totally gorgeous!!!! They migrate from Mexico to Santa Barbara.....and there are sanctuaries here...they cluster like this....it is astonishing!! they look like leaves....and then you can see ; they are butterflies clustering on the Eucalyptus leaves!!
They need milkweed! I plant Milkweed...and I find them laying their eggs...the caterpillars eat the leaves of the milkweed plant......(my gardener was horrified....I told him that was the point!)
Then the caterpillar makes a chrysalis and then the monarch butterfly emerges!
Beautiful!!!
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