Date: 10/13/2007

Number: 200

Saturday night (10/13) about 7:30 p.m.
my husband called me to come to the yard. There they were. Literally hundreds of Monarchs on our 70 year old Junipers. As many as 5-6 were clustered on one small branch as well as on many, many other branches. They were also fluttering and landing quite high in Pine trees , pecans and crepe myrtles. I would say Monarchs have definitely arrived in large numbers to eastern Dallas County. Couldn't check today (10/15)
for we had an inch of rain early this morning. We even lost a huge limb on an old red oak tree. It has been cloudy all day. They are definitely east of 35, south of 80 and north of 20. We will check again tomorrow as the weather is predicted to be clear. This is so much fun. We do all we can to have a natural yard, no pesticides, don't rake leaves as they fall. Later we mulch them and add to compost. We grow lots of butterfly attracting flowers in containers under our old trees.

Editor’s Note: We are estimating a minimum of 200 monarchs based on observer’s estimate of “hundreds.”

Courtesy of Mike Quinn, Texas Department of Fish and Game

Dallas, TX

Latitude: 32.8 Longitude: -96.8

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