Date: 09/02/2008

Number: 200

We have a group of Mulberry trees on the edge of our mowed lawn on our acerage. The trees are open to the yard from the east and south. We have had momarchs congreate in the fall on these trees. The past two years we have had very few monarchs and also noticed little to no milkweed growing nearby. This year we have noticed an increase in milkweed plants, and tonigh at 7:10 p.m. noticed many monarch butterflies flitting about our gardens on our acerage. We shortly discovered the tree branchs overloaded with monarchs, actually hanging in what seemed like clusters. One of the bigger monarch groups in recent years. Very exciting!

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

Story City, IA

Latitude: 42.2 Longitude: -93.6

Observed by: Randy
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