A suburban Chicago ecosystem
Monarch
Visiting Meadow Blazing Star
Location: Backyard and Home Shot Date: July 27, 2024, 3:28 p.m.
Location: Backyard and Home Shot Date: Aug. 12, 2023, 6:10 p.m.
Visiting Prairie Blazingstar
Location: Backyard and Home Shot Date: July 27, 2023, 4:36 p.m.
Location: Backyard and Home Shot Date: July 27, 2023, 2:47 p.m.
Location: Backyard and Home Shot Date: July 27, 2023, 2:40 p.m.
Visiting Common Ironweed
Location: Backyard and Home Shot Date: July 27, 2023, 2:38 p.m.
Visiting Daisy Fleabane
Location: Backyard and Home Shot Date: July 27, 2023, 2:36 p.m.
Female Monarch
In the gardens after eclosing
Location: Backyard and Home Shot Date: June 26, 2023, 3:22 p.m.
Resting on the deck table after eclosing
Location: Backyard and Home Shot Date: June 26, 2023, 3:13 p.m.
Inflating its wings
Location: Backyard and Home Shot Date: June 26, 2023, 12:41 p.m.
Just eclosed and inflating wings
Location: Backyard and Home Shot Date: June 26, 2023, 12:34 p.m.
Monarch Chrysalis
About to eclose
Location: Backyard and Home Shot Date: June 26, 2023, 10:03 a.m.
Monarch Butterfly
Visiting Swamp Milkweed
Location: Backyard and Home Shot Date: June 22, 2023, 10:19 a.m.
Hanging from the deck railing
Location: Backyard and Home Shot Date: June 19, 2023, 9:49 a.m.
Monarch Caterpillar
On Swamp Milkweed
Location: Backyard and Home Shot Date: June 10, 2023, 3:13 p.m.
Location: Backyard and Home Shot Date: June 3, 2023, 5:58 p.m.
On my Swamp Milkweed
Location: Backyard and Home Shot Date: Sept. 3, 2022, 11:52 a.m.
Location: Backyard and Home Shot Date: Sept. 3, 2022, 11:54 a.m.
Location: Backyard and Home Shot Date: Sept. 3, 2022, 12:05 p.m.