Found this Monarch butterfly in the conservatory....

never seen one of these in real life, they are absolutely beautiful not many butterflies about think it is too dry for them, had some but not as many as in other years.

What a beauty,Angela..I would have been concerned for it's safety too..did you manage to get it back outside? I do hope so..x

Angela It looks like a stained glass window ,I thought it was ! wouldn't that be beautiful with the sun shining through the glass !

Very striking. Did he find his way outside?

Thanks all for your comments, this.
butterfly is quite rare over here, it was enormous, but so beautiful, as Amy remarked, like a stained glass window!;-)
Whilst we were looking around for something to use to assist its safe passage........it flew out of through the door, was I thankful:-D

The monarch is an endangered species now. I used to see them everywhere, but now I've only seen one or two this whole summer. That's why I'm growing some milkweed for them.

That's good Bathgate (and what a relief Dotty!).

There's an excellent book that talks a lot about the amazing migration habits of Monarch butterflies, along with a 'relationship' story: "Flight Behaviour" by Barbara Kingsolver.

Beautiful, it doesn't look real. So glad it managed to find its way out :)

Not any butterflies here at the moment. Lovely that you have seen this beautiful one DD. Not seen many bees either.

OH saw a swallowtail this morning, unfortunately I just missed it!

We've had a cabbage white and a small brown so far.