Date: 04/19/2007

Number: 1

Altus and I took her 5th graders today to tour some of the wildflower lanes we have learned in DeWitt County. The A.
asperula blooms are fading out and going to seed but still being visited by faded monarchs. We travled slowly along one of the single lane paved roads and in an hour, covering about two miles, we counted seventeen monarchs. They were mostly females, faded to very faded, nectaring in the pastures or in the roadsides, or flying low and slow along the road. We got to see many up close, had a net along, but just left them alone. They were in no great hurry to move north, but they evently disappeared in that direction. Altus found some eggs on the oenotheroides leaves to show the students. We left and moved our touring to west of Cuero towards Cheapside and Westhoff in western DeWitt County and continued to see a good flow of monarchs in the afternoon. Tomorrow we take the 4th graders on their first excursion out into the the "wild".

Courtesy of Monarch Watch

DeWitt County, TX

Latitude: 29.1 Longitude: -97.3

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