The "Super Bloom" this past month in Southern California attracted many crowds, at a point between 50k and 100k in one weekend alone. I heard stories of the traffic jams, cars parking on the side of the freeway and even people waiting hours to board shuttles that were provided for a fee. There is good reason for the crowds since the last bloom was in 2017 (before that was 2005). The city used that experience to plan for this year's crowd, but the bloom and the crowd were greater than they had anticipated.
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| Photos above contributed by Katie (My Fairy Folks) |
Painted Lady butterflies migrated from Mexico to Oregon (or further), making it the farthest migrating butterfly. For over a week it was pointless to get a car wash since every trip on the freeway gained a few unfortunate splats on the windshield. Over 1 billion of these orange and black butterflies filled the skies, being the most in migration since 2005. This migration and Super Bloom go hand in hand.
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| Photo posted to Facebook by Ernie Slone |
Sources: NY Times, LA Times, CNN
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