Fluidr / Cheryl Dunlop Molin's "Monarch Butterfly: caterpillar to adult" set sorted randomly

monarch on orange flowers

N 1 B 58 C 5 E Sep 24, 2020 F Sep 25, 2020

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Flickr Lounge: orange

monarch on ironweed

N 1 B 33 C 0 E Sep 3, 2020 F Sep 4, 2020

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monarch caterpillar

N 2 B 45 C 2 E Jun 29, 2023 F Jul 2, 2023

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33/100 action shots; 4/10 insects in action

Tags: 100 x: The 2023 Edition 100x:2023 Image 33/100 monarch caterpillar caterpillar milkweed

monarch 1: closed wings

N 2 B 45 C 0 E Oct 1, 2019 F Oct 1, 2019

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mating monarchs

N 7 B 348 C 5 E Aug 6, 2021 F Aug 6, 2021

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100/100
Flickr Lounge: starts with the letter M

Here the male is changing his position so he can bring the female up and fly away with her--not an easy maneuver to fly away with double your own weight.

For the second time I chose "insects" as my theme for the 100x. Last year I said I wanted 100 different insects (I included two or three arachnids as well), and this year I said I wanted 100 insects I didn't use last year, though I reserved the right to reuse an insect if I got it in a different phase. I was specifically thinking of monarchs, because last year I used a caterpillar, and I wanted to include a good mating shot if I got one. I accidentally used two photos of eastern pondhawks, one male and one female (just carelessness), but I think I have 99 species, and I think all but this one and one other are different species than I used in my 100x last year. I also used a dark-phase eastern tiger swallowtail this year though I used the standard yellow one last year.