With the break in the onslaught of recent storms, monarch butteries and painted ladies are taking full advantage of the warm sun. The black-veined orange butteries are filling South Pasadena skies by the thousands.
If you are out and about, check it out!
We welcome any submissions of photos and videos of this rare phenomenon to media@southpasadenan.com!

Not all butterflies are monarchs. In particular, the butterflies migrating across South Pasadena this week are painted ladies!
The butterflies we’re seeing in the thousands right now are NOT Monarchs. They are Painted Ladies.
I remember in my early teen age, see in Buenos Aires beautiful butterflies, all kind of different colors.. September is welcoming the new Spring season. And butterflies are in charge of reminde the beautiful warm weather.