Great picture, so beautiful. :)

I’m waiting for mine to descend upon my Mexican sunflowers. The plants are just started blooming, so soon.

I’ll tell them to stopy by your place whenthey head south.

Peaceful and beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

So beautiful!

My plantings have really paid off this year as we have so many butterflies, bees and HUMMERS!!

I am going to really miss seeing all of these little visitors come winter.

Great picture!

Lovely!

This is the first year we've had more than one hummingbird. I think it's because it was so hot and not enough flowers were blooming. While we had more hummers, the butterfly numbers seemed to have dropped. Next year I'm planting milk weed!!

Gorgeous photo!

@localeater That is gorgeous and very timely. I have that plant in my garden and both bees and butterflies swarm to it. I have been trying to find out the name of it, but have not found a definitive answer. Do you know the name of it?

@nekotish It’s Joe Pye Weed, one of my favorites.

My caterpillars seem to have left. There were 2 still here yesterday. I see small monarchs today but they are from cocoons elsewhere that I haven’t seen. We have so many goldfinches!!! Every year they peep peep chatter chatter in the cone flowers stuffing on seed heads. I don’t see a lot of butterfles on my Butterfly weed bushes even though they are loaded with flowers for months. I have a huge variety of bees and the sedums are loaded down. My Baby Joe pye has had dried flowers for quite awhile now I am moving it next year to more sun.

I had a couple really large cats and some tiny ones on my milkweed and on the butterfly weed in the orchard, but as mentioned above they sort of disappeared all at once. I wonder if the birds or another predator got them?

So pretty...❤️

I miss Joe Pye Weed. It was all over the wetlands at my former place of employment but so far I haven't been able to make a space for it. I sort of want a wildflower hedge along the road in front of the house but that's not on the priority list yet . . .

Dee that butterfly bush floral color is gorgeous! Love the composition of that photo.

Good to know Monarchs like Joe Pye. On my drive home from the lake I pass many large swaths of it in the wetland areas - so pretty - shouldn't be called a weed.

So beautiful!

Oh how lovely!

Beautiful photo. I have a lot of butterflies this year, but so far no monarchs. I just checked my passion vine again and it is still loaded with fat gulf frittilary cats and I spotted several chrysalis. This is another favorite visitor.