Date: 10/15/2009

Number: 1

WE live in Tuscola Texas (about 20 miles South of Abilene Texas)... we have a huge group of the migratory butterflies every year, BUT this year...
They've been en masse 3 different times since Sept. 23 until now. We have the usual scouts early and late straglers, but usually only one huge group... this year there are THREE... what's up with that? Is it being reported the same everywhere? Has there ever been another year this happened. (We've been here 13 years and not seen 3 groups!)

Editor's Note: As reported by the Statesman.com website, "About every decade or so there’s an outbreak of snouts in Central Texas, according to Mike Quinn, president of the Austin Butterfly Forum. 'The weather pattern triggers these outbreaks — the drought followed by heavy rains,' said Quinn, who has compiled a site dedicated to the butterfly."

http://texasento.net/snout.htm

tuscola, TX

Latitude: 32.2 Longitude: -99.9

Observed by: carla
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