Posted By: minnesnowta2
Yellow Butterflies!!!!! - 01/15/2015 09:24 PM
What is with all these yellow butterflies!!?????
We have never seen this many before, or have we???
That's my question, is this normal???
Normally we are here in late March and are surprised by seeing them everywhere!!! They were even out in the "bay" of Happy Bay today!!!
Posted By: Carol_Hill
Re: Yellow Butterflies!!!!! - 01/15/2015 09:51 PM
There was a story in the DH about them the other day. Said there was an unusual amount because of additional rain in October or November, when they were growing, as there was lots of new vegetation for them. We noticed a lot of them at the end of December also.
Posted By: Trinigerl
Re: Yellow Butterflies!!!!! - 01/15/2015 10:40 PM
They are in all the islands, they were in St Barth and Anguilla when were there last week.
Posted By: transplantsxm
Re: Yellow Butterflies!!!!! - 01/15/2015 11:10 PM
Some years more, some years less. I have seen them so thick it reminded me of snowfall. We lived next to the bush area at Red Pond for years and a couple of years the amount of them were amazing. Just another wonderful nature thing to see on the island!!
Posted By: minnesnowta2
Re: Yellow Butterflies!!!!! - 01/16/2015 12:07 AM
They are pretty!!! And a lot of them!!!!
Posted By: caribbeanscout
Re: Yellow Butterflies!!!!! - 01/16/2015 02:04 AM
tons of them! i'll try to post my video later; took a short clip from fbbc today.
Posted By: M3se5
Re: Yellow Butterflies!!!!! - 01/16/2015 02:56 AM
We saw thousands of them last July at Anse Marcel. They were white and they looked like snow. Beautiful. They filled the air like that all day while we were at the beach.
Posted By: boucharda
Re: Yellow Butterflies!!!!! - 01/16/2015 12:24 PM
The road to Friar's has bushes with flowers and they are COVERED with them...but the gazillion I have seen are all white thus the "SXM snow" reference by the residents
Posted By: irish1223
Re: Yellow Butterflies!!!!! - 01/16/2015 05:19 PM
Yes, there were hundreds of them when we were there. I believe most of the ones we saw were white also. Tons of them going down the Club O road. So pretty!
Posted By: Barbara
Re: Yellow Butterflies!!!!! - 01/16/2015 05:56 PM
this usually happens in October but because of the hurricane it threw Mother Nature off. Since then the trees and plants have begun to bloom and blossom again and so the butterflies are here now.
Posted By: january
Re: Yellow Butterflies!!!!! - 01/16/2015 10:08 PM
A few years ago the same thing happened in June and July.
Posted By: sumbeach
Re: Yellow Butterflies!!!!! - 01/16/2015 10:30 PM
Coming from the airport yesterday to Orient also saw the white ones everywhere, someone above mentioned SXM snow - good description.
Posted By: dawnbeachette
Re: Yellow Butterflies!!!!! - 01/17/2015 11:12 PM
Love the butterflies but the orange caterpillars have destroyed 2 of my oleanders and are starting to munch on 3 others...seems to be their favorite food!!