Monarch Life Cycle

Feeding Monarch #12

Mmmmmm, gushy over ripe fruit, it's what's for dinner! My last Monarch came out at 9am and I cannot bring myself to chance it flying off into these storms so here is what I have provided it to eat. banana and orange in a dish where it can perch and eat without getting its feet wet. This last one is a female.
Female Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus)

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