Date: 09/08/2007

Number: 1

This is the first year that I have tried to monitor. The fields have a lot of milkweed and quite a bit of golden rod and asters (thanks to the demise of haying after 2001). There was a day when I found 20 caterpillars in just one section of one field. Yesterday I started counting the butterflies and counted 10 in one field and 30 in another two fields (total of at least 40). Today I went to a couple of other fields and counted over 45. Unfortunately, I haven't been methodical about the exact amount of time I was monitoring. It has been very warm the last two days. Yesterday was 90 degrees and last night 70. Today it got to 85. Finally, I found a second chrysalis this evening, Sept 8th, about 6:30. I found one before in the same field that formed on August 28th on a milkweed leaf (I had seen the "J" earlier in the day), but on September 4th all that was left of it was the "cap". Could it possibly have "hatched" in 7 days?

Madison, NH

Latitude: 43.9 Longitude: -71.1

Observed by: Jennifer
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