If you're cycling down Pt. Petre way this long weekend, you may be lucky enough to find an Admiral Butterfly resting on a tree trunk, as I did, exhausted after its long journal back from southern USA.
They look so much like the monarch that predators usually leave them alone as eating a monarch will make them very sick, and/or kill them.
Soon we will also see the monarchs, newly arrived from their marathon journey back from Mexico. There have been fewer by half these past two years due to the unusual cold in the mountain area where they winter over which killed tens of thousands. Normally, on a trip to that area, they will literally be 'dripping from the trees'.
I saw that once - dripping from the pine trees in thousands - on Wolf Island across from Kingston where they were gathering for their fall flight south. It was truly amazing.
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