Surviving Minnesota!

[Tfred1399]

Our seedums always get lots of bees this time of year. Today we have a hundred or so butterflies/moths out there. There are several that are monarchs, but most are much smaller, similar coloring, but different pattern. What are they called?

 

[bobbi-j]

Our seedums always get lots of bees this time of year. Today we have a hundred or so butterflies/moths out there. There are several that are monarchs, but most are much smaller, similar coloring, but different pattern. What are they called?

They might be Painted Lady butterflies.

 

[Tfred1399]

They might be Painted Lady butterflies.

 

[holm25]

Hello fellow chickeners. Just got home from a day of riding in the semi up to the family farm in Goodridge. Did some deer scouting and it's absolutely full of deer and bear up there. There is even a flock of wild turkeys up there for the first time in a long long long time. Everything up there is really dry and could use some rain. Brought home 34 bales yesterday and we returned te semi today...

 

[bobbi-j]

Google image of a Painted Lady.

 

[bobbi-j]

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Beautiful pic!

 

[BantyChooks]

They might be Painted Lady butterflies.

Painted Ladies are so pretty. We raised some once about 5 yrs ago.

 

[I Love Layers]

Anyone wanna give an update on the last few days?

Got 6th at a volleyball tournament today. Really good compared to how they did last year. We played really well too. I got a lot of blocks, and kills.

Was hoping to send some birds to thd New Salem sale today but did not because I did not have them caged on Friday night. I was hoping to sell around 10 birds... Hopefully someone locally will buy them. I sold 5, 2 year old layers on Tuesday to a neighbor. 4 Leghorns and 1 SLW.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

There is a bumper crop of those painted lady butterflies up here too. That's the 2nd video I've seen of massive numbers of them. So neat. My garden has a bunch of bees and these painted ladies. Hummingbirds seemed to have moved on.

Tonight we saw 4 turkey hens with all their varied sized poults. Must have been 30 birds altogether. I'm thinking the hens are sisters (there were 9 last year) so it was good to see this group with the cousin poults!

We dug potatoes at mom and dads tonight. Kanebecs. They are huge and beautiful. My dad really did a lot of watering while they were blooming. I think it paid off.

Camper was winterized and put away today. Laundry day today as well. It felt good to be home on a Saturday and to be able to get things done. The whole month of August we were basically gone every weekend.
I like getting things done around the house. Tomorrow I'll focus on my flock and coop.

 

[bobbi-j]

There is a bumper crop of those painted lady butterflies up here too. That's the 2nd video I've seen of massive numbers of them. So neat. My garden has a bunch of bees and these painted ladies. Hummingbirds seemed to have moved on.

Tonight we saw 4 turkey hens with all their varied sized poults. Must have been 30 birds altogether. I'm thinking the hens are sisters (there were 9 last year) so it was good to see this group with the cousin poults!

We dug potatoes at mom and dads tonight. Kanebecs. They are huge and beautiful. My dad really did a lot of watering while they were blooming. I think it paid off.

Camper was winterized and put away today. Laundry day today as well. It felt good to be home on a Saturday and to be able to get things done. The whole month of August we were basically gone every weekend.
I like getting things done around the house. Tomorrow I'll focus on my flock and coop.

I've had a couple of humming birds lingering, but I don't think they'll be here for long. They usually leave around the second week of September.