Today’s post features a few images I captured over the weekend while working in the church butterfly garden. Once you see Monarchs arriving in numbers, you know summer is coming to an end!
An adult Monarch collecting nectar from a Mexican Sunflower:
A Monarch laying an egg on a milkweed leaf:
A Monarch laying an egg on a whorled milkweed plant:
A couple of Monarch caterpillars checking each other out:
Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body
- Canon 100-400mm IS lens
- Handheld, with IS “On”
- ISO 400 and ISO 500
- Aperture f/5.6 and f/11
- Shutter 1/90 sec. to 1/2000 sec.