Date: 09/27/2013

Number: 1

FINALLY saw a monarch again at National Zoo!!! It was a female, and she was in the Butterfly Garden behind the Invertebrate House, nectaring at the scarlet milkweed. I followed her for ten minutes as she went back-and-forth between two different plantings of these vivid orange-and-red blooms. Happily, I was able to take several dozen photos, one of the prettiest of which I've included here. (She also spent a few moments basking on a red maple behind the garden...) I don't know when I've ever been so excited to see a monarch butterfly:-)

Washington, D.C., DC

Latitude: 39 Longitude: -77.3

Observed by: Lisa
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