My sister hatches them each year and for some reason there were hardly any this year in the San Diego area.

I was there a couple of days ago. Beautiful. Soon the desert will be covered in caterpillars,which feast on the wildflowers in this superbloom season.

next week. Do you think they will be in that area, it has some flowers after the rains, not like the dessert though.

Had to at least that number, clouds of them. I even shut the windows of the car at red lights so none would come in. Freaking biblical, really... Like The Birds buts with what looked like moths because they are smallish for butterflies...

From the South-bay

Godspeed, little guys!

this week as they are passing thru ... beautiful!

I really felt bad while driving, there was no way you could avoid them with the car.
This is the most I’ve seen since driving up to China Lake Naval Station maybe a decade ago, where they were so thick it got hard to see out the windshield, at which point I made the big mistake of turning on the windshield wipers, creating a mess that took hours to clean off.
I love seeing all of them in such huge numbers.

And all the butterflies migratin' through the valley
Move west down Ventura Boulevard

We'll see how many there are tomorrow. These guys are really beautiful.

Look so fragile and that's a marathon and a half. That they are capable of this blows my mind.

I found this one and quite a few more, in a little nature garden that's part of one of my town's parks.

The little garden grows California natives, and the butterflies love those.

Do you have anything like that near you? Or you could try a local nursery. They often have native plants that will attract these little butterflies.

Where did you see them?

kinda of worrying... didn't like seeing them flutter in traffic, between and around cars. didn't want them hurt.

neat.

There were thousands flying by each minute.Weirdly, they were all going right down the street, but there were none in my back yard. Today, there were a few stragglers; about one every 15-20 seconds.

We drove through them all the way from Commerce to Whittier this afternoon.

It's insane.

including the waning populatoin of Monarchs, are encouraged to plant milkweed.