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Butterfly on the Midway
A simple walking-around camera is especially fun during butterfly season here at @UChicago. This one spotted 20 minutes ago on 60th & Ellis. As a bonus, a passing purple car produced a nice background at wide aperture.
Suspect last seen at 60th and Ellis…
Suspect last seen at 60th and Ellis…
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Monarchs are regular illegal immigrants, grown-up anchor babies who go back and forth over the border from, you guessed it, Mexico. The children eat American milkweed like the welfare cheats they are. I hope you turned this one in after you took the picture.
They won't keep it up much longer, though, another victory for MAGA and border security from Scott Pruitt and DJT: https://www.sfchronicle.com/science/article/More-…
Not a hopeful analogy?
Monarchs are rapidly being extincted due to threats to their core breeding area (in the Mexican Sierra Madre) of illegal logging. Also due to the widespread use of pesticides in North America and the dying out of their key food species as a result of that and intensive monoculture.
Ontario has noted something like 90% falls in Monarchs reported over the last 40 years?
Nice clicks of Butterfly! In our daily routine we meet such kind of many interesting and enchanting things that brings smile on our face.
What is your "walking around camera"? Those are wonderful shots. (I know you've got a fairly fancy one you use for a lot of your pictures, and I'm assuming this is not the same one.)
My walking around camera is a Lumix FZ300. Has a nice lens and zoom. Small sensor. About $400.
Monarchs are regular illegal immigrants, grown-up anchor babies who go back and forth over the border from, you guessed it, Mexico. The children eat American milkweed like the welfare cheats they are. I hope you turned this one in after you took the picture.
They won't keep it up much longer, though, another victory for MAGA and border security from Scott Pruitt and DJT: https://www.sfchronicle.com/science/article/More-…
Not a hopeful analogy?
Monarchs are rapidly being extincted due to threats to their core breeding area (in the Mexican Sierra Madre) of illegal logging. Also due to the widespread use of pesticides in North America and the dying out of their key food species as a result of that and intensive monoculture.
Ontario has noted something like 90% falls in Monarchs reported over the last 40 years?
Nice clicks of Butterfly! In our daily routine we meet such kind of many interesting and enchanting things that brings smile on our face.
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What is your "walking around camera"? Those are wonderful shots. (I know you've got a fairly fancy one you use for a lot of your pictures, and I'm assuming this is not the same one.)
My walking around camera is a Lumix FZ300. Has a nice lens and zoom. Small sensor. About $400.
Isn't that the Chicago Bears' nickname?
They sting like a bee…..
In 1986.