[Magdalen] Le Premier Papillon.

[Jay Weigel]

This should be the week.....it's gotten warmer. Probably a rain would bring
them out. Because of the woods out back it's glorious when they do finally
come out.

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Loads of them here, Jay--I'll try to send some of them up your way!
>
> > On May 26, 2015, at 10:59 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > We're seeing butterflies here, but are most anxiously awaiting the
> > fireflies, which are myriad in our outback. S/O says he saw one at the
> > bedroom window the other night, but I have yet to see any.
> >
> > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Just now I saw my first butterfly of the season.  There was a  bright
> flash
> >> of yellow, and then golden fluttering the length of the  front deck.
> >>
> >>
> >> It appeared to be one of the "Swallow Tail" species, and probably
> >> attracted
> >> to my property because of my prize Tulip tree (Liriodendron  tulipifera)
> >> which is just near the deck, or to one of many magnolia shrubs and
> trees
> >> here.
> >>
> >>
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilio_glaucus
> >>
> >>
> >> We don't see Monarch butterflies here much any more.  I miss their
> >> brilliant orange and black.  They fed on a rather large patch of
> Milkweed
> >> along the road about a block away, but then the development decided  to
> >> keep the roadside mowed.
> >>
> >> I am reminded, this Memorial Day weekend (USA) of the  campaigns
> >> for grammar school students to collect the milkweed pods for  their
> >> "fluff" used in floatation devices for military service men and  women.
> >> It's a wonder any Milkweed survived this species "holocaust", since
> most
> >> of the seeds were gone with the fluff.
> >>
> >>
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_butterfly
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> David Strang.
> >>
> >>
>