Today's Good News!

The number of monarch butterflies overwintering this year in Mexico has nearly doubled, according to the annual census released last week by the World Wildlife Fund in Mexico and their partners.

During the last few months in 2025, the population of eastern monarchs occupied 4.42 acres of central Mexico’s forests—up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Auregoodnews #butterflies

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/number-of-monarch-butterflies-overwintering-in-mexico-is-way-up-double-the-forest-acreage-of-last-year/

Eastern Tailed Blue Butterfly (Cupido comyntas)
Butterfly 2020-2

It is easy to feel small in a big world
But we are all important

#butterfly #butterflies #macro #photography #beauty #nature #insect #flower #thephotohour #mramsdellpics

White peacock butterfly (Anartia jatrophae)
Butterfly 2018-108

It pisses me off when anger gets the best of me. 🤬
Enjoy nature - decompress.

#butterfly #butterflies #macro #photography #beauty #nature #insect #flower #bokeh #thephotohour #thankyou #mramsdellpics

Grey hairstreak butterfly (Strymon melinus)
Butterfly 2016-83

Little things can mean a lot.

#butterfly #butterflies #macro #photography #beauty #nature #insect #flower #bokeh #thephotohour #thankyou #weekend #mramsdellpics

Chasing away the winter chill with thoughts of past summer days … a black swallowtail butterfly gathers pollen from a sunflower.

#SilentSunday #butterflies #bloomscrolling #flowers #flora #FlowerPhotography #sunflowers #summer #nature #NaturePhotography #SolaceInNature #QuietJoys #SimpleThings #DelightOverDarkness

There is an entomology article from 1987 titled

"An Apparent Lowering of Moral Standards in the Lepidoptera"

It's about same-sex activities among butteflies.

I think this one has a lot of potential mileage. Punk rock band names? Queer Regency romance novel titles? Fictional Victorian gang names?

#queer #entomology #butterflies #science #nature

Hi Mastodon. I'm Mick, a wildlife guide based in Granada region of #Spain. I'm looking forward to connect with fellow birders, botanists & entomologists throughout the Fediverse.

Regularly out in the countryside of Andalucia & further afield posting info & images about my adventures & encounters with the natural world.

Here's a photo of a close encounter with Iberian Lynx I took a few years ago.

#intro #birdwatching #birding #birds #orchids #butterflies #moths #dragonflies #wildflowers

Common Buckeye #butterflies on Gregg’s Mistflower in the front garden. Since it appears that the seasons-change in SE Texas has been cancelled, with daily temps more summer-like than anything approximating autumn, I went ahead and bought some end-of-season-on-sale native perennial butterfly attractor plants and got them in the ground. Success so far, these are the first buckeyes I’ve seen in our garden.

#SilentSunday #butterfly #butterflyphotography #butterflyhabitat #photography

Clearing out all the past-their-prime zinnias from the front garden bed yesterday and this giant swallowtail showed up and hung around the lantana long enough for me to go grab my camera.

#SilentSunday #butterflies #butterfly #photography #butterflyphotography #insectphotography #ButterflyGardening #gardening