Date: 10/03/2011

Number: 1000

We are getting many reports of large numbers of monarchs in the Davis Mountains region of West Texas.

I just spoke to a rancher that has thousands of them roosting in pecan orchards near Valentine. He said that this is the first time that they have ever seen this many monarchs.

Also, I received a report today of hundreds of monarchs in the Post Park just south of Marathon.

We have also documented dozens of monarchs on our weekly butterfly counts at the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center--more than I have ever seen in the 10 years that I've been with the Nature Center.

We also have monarch caterpillars on the broad-leaf milkweed that came up in the grasslands that burned in April.

Courtesy of TX-BUTTERFLY

Valentine, TX

Latitude: 30.7 Longitude: -104.5

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