Date: 10/14/2009

Number: 1

Last week I saw thousands of butterflies on a deer lease in Concho county Texas. It is about 15 miles north of Eden, TX. They appeared to be feeding or collecting pollen from wildflowers. It is hard to estimate the number of butterflies we saw but it was at least 10,000 to 20,000. I really didn't know much about the migration but we had a magazine, Texas Parks and Wildlife, that had an article about the migration. Amazing sight! My observation time: I was watching for 1 hour.

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

Eden, TX

Latitude: 31.2 Longitude: -99.9

Observed by: Brad
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