Dirty Butterflies

Cabbage butterflies are sloppy fliers.  They often look as though they are blindly tumbling about.   Just the same, they cover a lot of distance in a hurry.  It’s hard to follow their moves, let alone chase them down to figure out what they are doing.

Considering this, I am pretty certain I saw what I think I saw yesterday.  Given all the swirling, pirouetting, swooping, frantic fluttering and grappling, I saw three white cabbage butterflies engaging in a wicked mid-air, across-the-lawn threesome.

--Mitchell Hegman