Haiku: It’s a Boy

First show in season
Home is butterfly garden
Flutter and nectar

Same first male feasting on a zinnia

Haiku by PamelaWLucas 7/24/17

Inspirational photo by Tara McLaughlin 7/23/17

How do you distinguish a male from a female monarch butterfly?

 

Monarch Mommy Haiku

Deposit your eggs

Leaving your image once more

Giving beauty back

Haiku poem by PamelaWLucas 9/9/16

Photo by Tara McLaughlin  (Tara watched this delicate Monarch lay 100 eggs.  She photographed the moment, then rescued the eggs and put them in her butterfly nursery. She is now releasing the many survivors. I call her Monarch Mommy.) Summer of 2016