Date: 07/23/2012

Number: 1

Laura Miller and I made an impromptu trip up north today to check out a few milkweed habitats. As we were driving on Hwy 87 through Pine, Laura pointed out roadside Asclepias subverticillata - and an orange butterfly. Slammed the brakes and pulled over in time to watch a monarch butterfly with good color flying over the milkweed, across the road and back to the milkweed before settling to nectar on a milkweed flower. As we neared to try to get a photo, a car breezed by and the monarch flew off and away into the pine forest. Acted like male monarch with territorial flying, but cannot be fully certain.

Pine, AZ

Latitude: 34.4 Longitude: -111.4

Observed by: Gail
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