I truly adore butterflies, they are so gorgeous and elegant. Sadly the same issue with urbanization happens in my city so there's not even half of the amount of butterfluies there used to be, so I get the same exciment when one comes to my garden.
You're lucky to have seen these beauties!
It's a shame that they are leaving, but luckily the queen and the fugitive keep coming and just yesterday I saw the first invasive of the year 😍 so I am hopeful that this year will be impregnated with that butterfly again, they are too beautiful for us to lose them like that 💔
Hopefully we won't lose them, and I hope they keep visiting your garden 💕