Date: 09/04/2005

Number: 1

I just drove in from northwest Iowa and haven't seen anything that would lead me to say the migration is underway. In the last 6 weeks there have been many monarchs throughout central Iowa but I haven't noticed any purposely directional movement. Now that I hear Ames is experienced a higher number, I'll be watching across the Des Moines area.

I still have lots of egg laying in my habitat (I have them in my flight cage but I expect them in there not in the wild) - at this rate it seems I'll have monarchs until Christmas. I'm hoping to have everything cleared out by the middle of October. I am somewhat surprised at the egg laying still in the wild. The milkweed is still looking very good around our area.

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Des Moines, IA

Latitude: 41.6 Longitude: -93.6

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