{"id":13410,"date":"2012-11-02T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T19:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=13410"},"modified":"2012-11-04T12:15:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T19:15:20","slug":"visited-by-royalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/11\/02\/visited-by-royalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Visited By Royalty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Was able to get quite friendly with a recently emerged female Monarch Butterfly by getting it to crawl onto my hand and then transferring it to my shirt. It stayed for about a minute before then flying north.<\/p>\n

This was actually the second day in a row that I got to do this. The day before it was a male Monarch that crawled up to my shoulder, stayed a bit, and then flew towards our canyon. Those pictures turned out completely sucky so use your imagination instead. (I said imagination, Lisa, not fantasy.)<\/p>\n

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Was able to get quite friendly with a recently emerged female Monarch Butterfly by getting it to crawl onto my hand and then transferring it to my shirt. It stayed for about a minute before then flying north. This was actually the second day in a row that I got to do this. The day … <\/p>\n

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