All photographs on this page are copyright by Dann McCright and taken at the Butterfly Habitat Gardens. Click on any small photo below for a larger version of the same image.
Monarch butterflies rest and forage on plants of many different species. Warm sunny days are the best time to see them. In late fall, they begin migrating to the warmer California coastal regions.
Mourning Cloak butterflies will lay eggs on willow trees and other species of native trees along the creek corridor. This is one of our most abundant butterfly species along the Creek Walk.
A Painted Lady butterfly stops to admire Butterfly Bush flowers. Only caterpillars have chewing mouth parts; butterflies have a straw-like feeding tube that is usually rolled up in a coil. When feeding, its 'mouth' uncoils to drink sweet flower nectars.
A pair of Variable Checkerspot butterflies celebrating spring
Life cycle of the Monarch butterfly
Monarch caterpillar on a milkweed plant
Monarch chrysalis on California fuchsia
Monarch butterfly on buckwheat
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