Location:
Species:
Painted lady
Date and Time:
Saturday, March 16, 2019 - 00:00
Number Observed:
100
Type:
Migrating individual(s)
Wind Speed:
0
Description/Notes:
Santa Clarita, California. I took a long drive this morning from the coast (Long Beach) up north to ultimately the high desert and back. I saw swarms of them crossing Hwy 14 in Santa Clarita, then I got back to the coast and drove through about a two mile-wide swath of them all the way where I got off the 605 freeway going south to my destination, a schoolyard habitat. They crossed our Garden in droves, but many of them paused at a butterfly magnet, mule fat (Baccharis salicifolia), a wetlands plant, before they left. I stared at them for a while and thought, “How precious they are.” Observed by Wildthumb, Daily Kos.