There was a "Butterfly Festival"

Hello,  everyone.  Today the weather is flirting with a turn to fall weather again. (We had a piece of summer weather for a while, though not as beastly hot as August gets.) There was a "Butterfly Festival " at the butterfly place down the road from Bentsen State Park,  ao we drove by to have a look. 

The grounds were basically a lot of flower beds. Just now the purple fringe-y flowers that look like ageratum were blooming. Theirs are the shrub variety. Many monarch butterflies were enjoying the nectar. We saw a strange bug on one of the bushes.

This is from above. We've never seen this creature before. 

We were hoping the butterfly place would be having a plant sale, but they weren't.  It's too bad; I would have loved to add some of the goldenrod variety they had growing to my flowers.