Date: 07/28/2014

Number: 1

This is the FIRST Monarch I have seen this year, sad to say. One lone female, flitting around in a roped off patch of very mature, seed pod forming, common milkweed and blooming tuberosa. The roped off small patch of milkweed was in Boyd's Big Trees state park, where they mow down the rest of the acreage containing grasses and thousands of milkweed plants and bale it for mushroom mulch every July. Boyd's is 5 miles from my yard. I have yet to see a Monarch in my yard which is filled with every perennial and annual that butterflies prefer! Swallowtails, which overwinter here, are low in number as well, I've seen just 2.

Dauphin, PA

Latitude: 40.4 Longitude: -76.9

Observed by: Deb
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