Date: 10/12/2002

Number: 1

The monarchs made it to our area on Saturday, October 12. We counted almost 300 monarchs in a period from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM. We were at Millwood Lake just east of Ashdown, AR, in Little River county. The monarchs would come up over the spillway and down into a field of goldenrod to feed. The day started out sunny but clouds had moved in. There was a light breeze and temperatures were in the upper 70s to low 80s. As long as the clouds stayed in the area the monarchs came down to feed. When the sun came out again they all seemed to leave headed south to soutwest. We were able to catch and tag 60 of the monarchs. All of them were very large and looked fat and healthy. The majority of the ones we tagged were male.

Texarkana, AR

Latitude: 33.5 Longitude: -93.9

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