Date: 09/24/2009

Number: 1

It is now time to report on summer in this part of Michigan, but it is not a good one. I was told of six monarchs seen here one day in June, but since then I've seen five only in early September on the butterfly bush I pass on my daily walks. In fact, the bush has been bare of any insects. In the village (35 acres of good park land) there are only cabbage butterflies and a few dragonflies.

My daughter lives 1.5 miles from here on the shore of Lake St. Clair and she has the same depressing news. Other years, September meant a great number of migrating monarchs over the lake, and drifting along the shore. This month they've only seen a very few monarchs

I wonder if Toronto summer was as strange as ours - cool and damp until this month. We had not one hot night.

Chesterfield, MI

Latitude: 42.7 Longitude: -82.8

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