This year's wildflower super bloom is not only filling California deserts with eye-popping displays of color -- it's also providing a feast for swarms of painted lady butterflies making their way north from Mexico
"This is the biggest outbreak since 2005," said Art Shapiro, a professor at the University of California, Davis, who's been studying the migration of butterflies in the state since 1972.
A particularly wet winter has set off a brilliant and vibrant super bloom of bright orange poppies across parts of Southern California. They are orange and black and are often mistaken for the more famous monarch butterflies. They're typically smaller than monarchs and have a different shape.
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