I love the hairs sticking out from the thorax of the top monarch.  Now that it is mating season and many of the monarchs are down closer or on the ground, I am getting some great close up shots.  I am also seeing things that i never noticed before, like the tactile se...

 If you look closely at the to monarch, you can see the dots that signify that it is a male are actually raised up.  That is a new discovery for me. I have taken pictures before where I could tell that the veining (the thin black lines running through the wings) were r...