Date: 08/25/2009

Number: 1

Joan reported this morning that on the evening of August 23rd, before a storm, monarchs seem to drop out of the sky and land on their buddleia (77 F temperatures). On August 24, they counted about 500 monarchs in a nearby clover field, and on the 25th, about 7-800. The next day, August 29th, they counted 3 monarchs. I remember there being a major migration last year about that time.

Rod had been looking for monarch larva for a few days and has found none (8/31). They have also had a rough year in their small breeding operation, with skunks eating some luna caterpillars and someone spraying next door and killing some monarch larva.

Rod counted 18 monarchs yesterday. (8/30) Rod has also heard that local boaters have seen monarchs out over Lake Ontario.

I saw one migrating monarch yesterday right in the downtown core of Toronto and in the hospital district of the city on University Avenue, attracted by the wide median filled with flowering plants and trees.

Port Hope, ON

Latitude: 44 Longitude: -78.3

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