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The monarch butterfly or simply monarch is a milkweed butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. Other common names depending on region include milkweed, common tiger, wanderer, and black veined brown. Wikipedia
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December 1, 2016
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Couldn't resist taking another shot of these beautiful butterflies as the light was wonderful at the time :)
The southern subspecies of these butterflies (Precis octavia sesamus) is found from the border region of the Eastern and Western Cape in South Africa and along the eastern side of South Africa to Swaziland, Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya.
Spent several glorious hours today photographing butterflies. They were everywhere....in the daylilies and on the thistle. There is the joy of the visual...the bright bright colors and vivid patterns, but today, there was also the joy of sound. There was the ever-present humming of bees, of course. But there was also a very slight, very quiet thud thud thud. I realized that that was the sound of a hundred butterfly wings beating beating beating. Glorious.
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In the silence of colors when no one's around,
and the light slowly fading, is my favorite sound.
I light on a leaf to settle my wings,
because they are delicate, and sensitive things.
Now I wait in the darkness no matter how long,
till I feel the vibrations, of the birds morning song.
Ps. Butterflies have no ears, so they sense the vibrations
in the air, with their wings.