Date: 11/01/2010

Number: 1

This is just a comment about the butterfly season in Manitoba. I was interested to see the number of sightings in Southern Manitoba in September and October. I had caterpillars in my garden right into early October. It got very cold the first two weeks in September and each morning that I checked on them, I thought they must be dead. However, as it warmed up they revived and continued to eat. It was plain that they were progressing very slowly, so I took pity on them and brought them all indoors, along with milkweed plants that I had planted in pots. Most of them hatched, along with one that escaped and hung itself up under the dining room table! It was still chilly when I released the butterflies, and it took them a long time to warm up and fly away, but I hope that some of them managed to make it. I wonder how many of the ones I hatched indoors were seen by the observers in Manitoba in September and October. I have never before seen caterpillars so late in the season. This was a great year for them as the first butterfly arrived in my garden on June 1st and it was a continuous round of eggs, caterpillars and butterflies until the last one hatched indoors the first week in October.

Winnipeg, MB

Latitude: 49.9 Longitude: -97.1

Observed by: Patricia
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