Date: 07/10/2014

Number: 1

Observations reported by Kip Kiphart, Boerne, TX:

On July 10th during NABA 4th of July Butterfly Count, a monarch butterfly was observed at Guadalupe River State Park (Spring Branch, TX). We were unable to determine the sex but the butterfly appear fresh, probably a Gen3.
During the last week of June, I was seeing a very faded, tattered male patrolling my butterfly garden.
At any given time, I have 2 to 3 dozen queens nectaring primarily on Gregg's blue mist (Eupatorium greggii).
Interestingly I had not found a queen egg on the two A. curassavica in the garden or in my MLMP milkweed patch, some 30 A. asperula, about 150 feet away..................until July 11th when I found one egg with monitoring.
The Central Flyway of Texas turned out very, very few Gen1 butterfly despite an over-abundance of milkweed.

Spring Branch, TX

Latitude: 29.9 Longitude: -98.4

Observed by: Ridlon
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