Date: 04/10/2006

Number: 1

At 1:30 this afternoon, while driving across campus, I passed a monarch flying parallel to the road adjacent to the law school.
Although quite faded, it was flying strongly.

I've heard of two second hand accounts of monarch sightings last weekend in the Kansas City area.

Although I recall seeing a monarch in Lawrence once on the 7th of April, this sighting is early. IF, and it's a big IF, we see monarchs in Lawrence in April it is usually between the 14th and 21st.

The spring bloom is early this year. The peak in bloom of the campus crab apples, of which there are numerous varieties, is usually on the 14th of April. This year the bloom reached a peak on the 7th.

Courtesy of Monarch Watch

Lawrence, KS

Latitude: 39 Longitude: -95.2

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