Date: 07/29/2014

Number: 1

Watching monarchs in the wild can be fraught with hard reality. Find eggs and take joy in the hope for their survival. Discover early caterpillars and cross your fingers that the little ones will grow into the next. See 5ths within plain view on the leaf voraciously eating and figure they are in the running to make it to flight. Come upon the rare wild chrysalis and pray that a soldier bug nymph will not have its way. Finally, finding the wild eclosed monarch hanging. Nature's score seems to have reached its crescendo. And then the slap. Beneath the same aster plant from which the wild eclosed monarch hung, hours later this. Wings strewn upon the ground, the body gone. Small holes in the scales. What bird's beak did this and why. It's hard to ponder.

Goshen, IN

Latitude: 41.6 Longitude: -85.8

Observed by: Julia
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