Date: 09/16/2011

Number: 1

I saw 1 bright, new looking monarch in my yard throughout the daytoday. several days ago I found a very faded,monarch with a small part of its wing missing laying on my driveway seeming to not be able to fly away. I put it on a milkweed flower where it nectared and then layed eggs. I found it later on the ground by the milkweed. It was starting to get dark so I placed it on my juniper tree to roost. the next morning it was stll there roosting. when the sun came out I walked over to put it back on a milkweed flower to nectar and it effortlessly flew away! I was so happy to see it flying because it wouldnt fly the previous day... I'm guessing from exhaustion and or hunger from migrating through drought and fire ravaged Texas.

Sugar Land, TX

Latitude: 29.6 Longitude: -95.6

Observed by: Ann
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