What we've been waiting for all season...

A migratory monarch butterfly fluttered into our Vacaville garden at noon today (Tuesday, Sept. 17) and nectared on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola.

Then she treated us to a butterfly ballet.

The Danaus plexippus touched down, nectared, shot up, dropped down, and did it all over again, while male territorial longhorned bees tried to make her stay short.

But she hung around for and hour.

Wings up...and she was gone. 

And then another flashed by...

It's migratory monarch season.