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painted lady on lilac verbena
painted lady on lilac verbena		 painted lady on lilac verbena
painted lady on lilac verbena		 painted lady on Mexican bush sage
painted lady on Mexican bush sage 		painted lady on bladderpod
painted lady on bladderpod
painted lady on dara's sage
painted lady on dara's sage 		lilac verbena (L), hummingbird sage (R), hedge nettle (back)
lilac verbena (L), hummingbird sage (R), hedge nettle (back)		 bladderpod (center) and bush sunflower (R)
bladderpod (center) and bush sunflower (R)

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Trude17-Mar-2019 22:09
On Friday, March 15, we had tens of thousands of painted lady butterflies dispersing through our yard in Orange County. Some stopped to sip nectar on the lilac verbena in the backyard and a few stopped in the front yard for the bladderpod and bush sunflower. It was a stream of movement from the SE to the NW. When we get a wet winter after years of drought, their numbers explode in the desert and they leave (disperse) and head to the coast and then northward. It is not a migration because they do not come back. Truly a nature spectacle!
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