Check Out This Gorgeous Cluster Of Monarch Butterflies

(Photo credit: sunmallia)

Shot at Ardenwood Farms in Fremont, Flickr user sunmallia captured this group of monarch butterflies. "It took me a long while to really see them as they look like a clump of dead leaves but when I did see them it was amazing," sunmallia said, adding, "they mostly stayed in clumps and every now and then the clumps would flutter. Am amazing site to see for sure."

Indeed.

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By Brock Keeling in Arts & Entertainment on January 18, 2012 10:55 AM 0 Comments

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bluecanary1

One summer as a little kid, I put milkweed and a monarch caterpillar (and even as caterpillars, they're pretty cool looking) into a jar and watched it spin its cocoon and eventually come out of said cocoon and fly away. I've always loved monarchs, this is a cool picture.

boris_qd

No. They overwinter in Ardenwood Farms. http://baynature.org/articles/...

withak30

Those guys are probably en route between Canada and Mexico.

Shibi_SF

In California then?

Matt Rooney

I donno why, but i find one or a few monarchs in flight beautiful. A crapton of them all landed in a group just creeps me out. They go from being "pretty flying flower-things" to "holy shit, bugs"

Is it just me?

Caitlin Podiak

I went to a butterfly sanctuary in Australia once, and at first it was so cool to be surrounded by so many butterflies, but when a giant one landed on my thigh and didn't feel like going anywhere when I tried to brush it off, it quickly went from awesome to creepy.