July is Butterfly Count Month!
The North American Butterfly Association needs volunteers to count butterflies in a selected are 15 miles wide in diameter, called count circles.
Our milkweed is blooming now and, of course, other really fun food for butterflies.
If you are interested in being part of the butterfly count go here: http://www.naba.org/
Have a nice Thursday!
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
I didn’t know butterflies liked milk weed! Cool! We have milk weed in the pastures blooming. I’ll have to watch for them! 🙂
Hope you all are safe from those terrible wild fires. Our prayers and thoughts are with all you in Colorado!
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I’ m sure there will be alot of people counting butterflies.. I’m not one of those,.. I enjoy seeing butterflies –but never pay too much attention to them unless I can get a photo of them on one of my flowers… They are pretty!!!
Hope you two have a great day. How is Terry today?
Hugs,
Betsy
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I have some not-so-fond memories of milkweed. Dad didn’t like it growing in the corn, and my brother and I had to cut it down. But I’m glad butterflies like it.
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What an interesting idea Linda – we don”t have any thing like this in the UK but we do have a Nature Reserve quite near to us and every Sunday they do moth and butterfly counts – they get amazing numbers. (Sadly I have a moth phobia so I never join in.)
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Hardly any butterflies here. Or bees. Or even crickets. <:(. Too much spray to kill mosquitoes that might carry West Nile Virus. But we did see "Flight of the Butterflies" in 3D at an IMax theater recently. What a miracle the journey of the Monarch is! Too bad their only food, milkweed, is becoming so scarce in so many places.
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Awesome I get tons of them and they all pose for me 🙂 I just planted some goodies in my garden for them 🙂
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Yes and how many miles are you from fire and and is the smoke choking you out?
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Your Milkweed is so tall and blooming..ours will look like that in August! I love to see the Butterflies come around! 🙂
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I count birds but when it comes to butterflies I know not one. I’m going to have to change that.
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Have a good time!
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We call milkweed swan plants here in NZ. I have lots growing around the garden, and let it self seed so the Monarch butterflies have plenty of food.
Barbara Kingsolver’s latest book Flight Behaviout is all about Monarch butterflies and climate change in a fascinating story – I learnt so much from it, and couldn’t put it down it was such a rivetting read…
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If I was only there, you know how much I like butterflies..:-))))
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