Corralitas Drive: Monarchs of Winter

Photo: Diane Edwardson, December 26, 2012.  Look closely, the Monarch Butterfly's (Danaus plexippus) tongue is reaching up and over its head, into one of the top flowers on the left .  (Click on photos to enlarge.)



Photo: Diane Edwardson, December 26, 2012.  I haven't seen Monarchs in a long time.  It seems like we used to see more 20 years ago.  Now they are rare visitors on their winter