Date: 08/24/2010

Number: 1

I'm not entirely sure about the date, but I know my boyfriend and I saw hundreds of monarch butterflies mating the 3rd week of August 2010. Sadly, we showed up for a late day's walk and I forgot my camera. We only got in 45 minutes or so watching them pile on top of each other in a somewhat aggressive manner. When the sun began to set, they all flew up into the trees next to the pond in Fisher Meadows (next to a HUGE milkweed/goldenrod/Queen Anne's Lace/fleabane daisy aster field), Avon, CT. We went back a few days later and they were all gone. We continued to go back each week and found caterpillars, chrysalises, and newly hatched butterflies all over. I became so enthralled by this spectacle that I switched my graduate thesis to monarch migration and I am using this area as my case study!

Avon, CT

Latitude: 41.8 Longitude: -72.9

Observed by: Teri
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