"OmManiPadmeOmelet" wrote in message
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"cat daddy" wrote:

"OmManiPadmeOmelet" wrote in message
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Is anyone else experiencing another great butterfly migration???
I'm trying not to duck, but they to startle me a bit when 6 or 8 of
them
fly at me at once! lol

Not sure what species, but here is a small one taking a break on a
bindweed flower in my yard:

http://tinypic.com/211syuw.jpg

This seems to happen every few years?

In Texas, Conditions Lead to a Rabble of Butterflies
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/27/us...html?th&emc=th

"South Texas is under siege from swarms of airborne migrants: tens of
millions of Libytheana bachmanii larvata — snout butterflies to y’all —
along with Kricogonia lysides, or yellow sulfurs, that have taken
advantage
of an unusual drought-and-deluge cycle to breed in spectacular if not
record
profusion.

...the butterfly proliferation had been set off by drought conditions
that decimated the caterpillar’s natural predators, followed by
drenching
rains that prompted hackberry trees to put out green shoots, quickly
attracting the egg-laying caterpillars that could briefly thrive without
enemies."

Oh! Cool! :-)

This seems to happen every few years. It's kinda neat even tho' I'm not
overly fond of droughts.

I'm thrilled to discover that something eats hackberry trees......