Christine Bairstow, Butterfly Beauty (ANIMAL & NATURE 2025)

Swarming Monarch butterflies at Nannup in the south west WA, fill the town with masses of butterflies covering flowering plants. They are initially attracted by two weed plants, milkweed and narrow leaf cottonbush but soon cover any plant blooming.

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