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stopbush

(24,397 posts) Tue Mar 12, 2019, 05:05 PM Mar 2019

The SoCal air is filled with about a billion Painted Lady butterflies migrating from Mexico

Really neat driving around here today. First time I’ve seen this migration, and I’ve lived here 10 years.

http://tbrnews.com/news/what-are-all-those-tiny-butterflies-flitting-about-the-south/article_c6d1fa86-4452-11e9-9db1-ef969c295ebb.html

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The SoCal air is filled with about a billion Painted Lady butterflies migrating from Mexico (Original Post) stopbush Mar 2019 OP

I wonder if all that rain we've been getting Codeine Mar 2019 #1

Not thirty seconds after I posted Codeine Mar 2019 #2

Sad to see em' getting massacred on the highways. miyazaki Mar 2019 #3

Yesterday it was like some SiFi movie, millions of them, like "The Birds" x a million winstars Mar 2019 #4

Codeine

(25,586 posts)

1. I wonder if all that rain we've been getting

Reply to stopbush (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2019, 05:09 PM

Mar 2019

has increased the egg-laying activity?

Codeine

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2. Not thirty seconds after I posted

Reply to stopbush (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2019, 05:13 PM

Mar 2019

my wife called me and asked “Why is Fontana swarming with butterflies? They’re everywhere!”

miyazaki

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3. Sad to see em' getting massacred on the highways.

Reply to stopbush (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2019, 05:24 PM

Mar 2019

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winstars

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4. Yesterday it was like some SiFi movie, millions of them, like "The Birds" x a million

Reply to stopbush (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2019, 05:38 PM

Mar 2019

I actually shut my car widows at traffic lights. Never saw anything like it before

A beautiful concrete wall mighta stopped them but noooooooooooo!!!

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