The December Butterfly -- By Jim Rodrigues
He shouldn't have been there, but he was! The biggest orange and black butterfly I had ever seen. He was fluttering around the block-long Bresee Park near Vermont and Second Street in the Wilshire District of Los Angeles. I guessed he was part of a North America to South America migration of Monarch/Viceroy type butterflies. On a nature TV program I had heard that these guys were really big! He certainly fit that part of the biological bill. What made him stop at Bresee Park remains something of... Sign in to see full entry.