Date: 08/23/2005

Number: 1

I have had a lot of butterflies in my yard the last few nights. Last night (8/23/05) I had about 550 roosting in the trees surrounding my house. Tonight (8/24/05) there were about 900.

I have been keeping track of the number in my yard each night (except when I'm out-of-town) from about August 15 to Sept 20 for the last several years. Here is the number of butterflies roosting in my yard from Aug. 15 to Aug. 24 from 2001 to this year.

Butterflies Roosting Aug. 15 - Aug. 24

2001 - 2700

2002 - 59

2003 - 69

2004 - 1

2005 - 2080

The Monarch population has certainly rebounded in my area. So far they don't seem very interesting in heading south (even on calm nights or North wind they are clustering in my yard). I expect that as soon as the wind comes out of the north again they will be off towards Mexico. It is sure fun to see numbers of butterflies again.

Campbell, MN

Latitude: 46.1 Longitude: -96.4

Observed by: Paul
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