The Chaste Trees came in

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15. It wasn't a swallowtail

Though they do often get called Monarchs by mistake

They have the little protrusion at the end of their lower wing and this one didn't

http://www.daltonstate.edu/galeps/webpages/papilionidae/Pcresphontes.htm

Sometimes I think the overwintering ones are a paler gold color, or maybe it's the opposite. The migrating ones are paler?

Here and in North Georgia they sometimes appear more yellow than orange, esp the female:

http://www.daltonstate.edu/galeps/webpages/nymphalidae/Dplexippus.htm



This one was moving too fast sampling flowers for me to get a good gander, so it could have been another kind.

Still nice to see. The butterfly milkweed (bright orange asclepsia) is blooming like crazy all over the place along the roads and in people's gardens - a nice Volunteer orange - so the butterflies are well positioned this year.

Kudos to the ladies who made the DOT stop spraying the roadsides.