Date: 09/21/2003

Number: 1

No monarchs in any great numbers, just singles spotted across the town and rural areas. The big story continues to be Painted Lady butterflies streaming across the highways and backroads and nectaring by the dozen on the last of the garden blooms such as gaillardia, holly hock and sedum.

So what gives? This has all the appearance of a migration from the north southward, but guide books say this does not occur in the Midwest. Anyone out there with more information?

Mount Carroll, IL

Latitude: 42.1 Longitude: -90

Observed by: Penny
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