Sometimes I leave the watermelon rind out on the deck for the birds and the bees to feast themselves on the sweet seeds and flesh of the fruit. This afternoon, I saw a beautiful butterfly just loving the fruit and seemed like it couldn’t get enough of the nectar. I thought may be it was stuck and M tried to kind of touch it with a blade of grass. It flew out and landed on the railing, and didn’t move for a while. I think the poor thing is drunk. Here are some pictures we took. But after a couple of minutes it flew back to the fruit, and I truly believe it is a case of total intoxication!
Hehe! I doubt it was a drunk butterfly – probably drank so much liquid it couldn’t get airborne due to a heavy gut!! At least it was able to enjoy and feast and provide some entertainment for you and M.
A drunken butterfly sounds more romantic and poetic than a gluttonous one, me thinks.
I agree with Val that it was probably just stuffed with watermelon! These are wonderful photos, and how fun to know that you fed the butterfly so well!
Thank you Janet. I hope you are being safe and staying inside the home. We are seeing the smoky haze here, wafting all the way from CA and Washington states. There are posts on facebook that have talked about seeing the haze in New York!
Yes, I’m safe, Zakiah, thank you! On Friday, the sky is blue with a thin film of smoke, and the air feels good too! I heard a couple of nights ago that the smoke has made it all the way to Europe already. The fires are still burning, and still dangerous, but far away from me. .
Wow… that butterfly must be grinning from ear to ear (do they have ears?) after drinking all that sweet watermelon juice.
Really!! It was a feeling of total satiation I think. Just wouldn’t even budge when we approached it.
I always get drunk on watermelon! 😉
Me too Kim. I love that fruit so much. But I wish they had not gone and altered the watermelon so much that the seeds are gone. I think the seeds made it sweeter. I have seen that the seedless watermelons do not taste as good as those with the seeds.
Very much agreed, re seeds! I mourn the loss of grapes with seeds, just as I learned of the seeds benefits, too. Much work to do to reverse some of these culture changes that capitalism made.
Such joy it brought you. My rinds go to my mom’s chicken’s. It is one of their favorite treats.
It did. The cook at home used to make a curried side-dish with the white part of the rinds and it used to taste excellent.
Wow, I am astonished. I never thought of this. Zakiah ji you inspire me so much.
Wonderful shots.
Thank you so much Rupali. Love your comment. Love hearing from you.
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Lucky butterfly! I hope he didn’t fly too soon afterwards! Wouldn’t want him getting a FWIW! (Flying While Intoxicated…from Watermelon! 😉 😀 )
After you shared this before, I followed your great example and started putting out food and fruit rinds for more than just the birds…food that insects could enjoy, too. 🙂
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Carolyn, that butterfly stayed there for hours. That’s why we thought that it had cardiac arrest and M tried to disturb it. It went on to the railing of the deck for a while, but went right back to its nectar. It was really cool to watch it.
“Whatever the bottle as long as we have drunkenness” , a French romantic poet Alfred de Musset wrote.
This romantic butterfly was also getting drunk but he needed a beautiful watermelon! 🙂
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Michel
Beautiful repost!!!! I need some watermelon just so I can put some rind out now! I do have some nice photos of my balcony garden. I should post those…
LOVE it.