Butterfly Migration - late September

The butterflies sure do enjoy our butterfly bushes and we plan to plant some other colors in the spring!  Painted lady butterflies migrate 9,000 miles from California to Mexico each year and come thru Colorado.  The orange butterflies, which are commonly mistaken for monarchs, are headed to Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico for the winter.  They enjoy a variety of flowers, especially asters, which are in bloom right now.    The butterflies will also pass through on their way back north in April and May.