Date: 09/07/2014

Number: 400

We are blessed to be a hotspot for monarchs right now. An 18 acre field of fully blooming alfalfa and prairie grasses backs up to our property. The monarchs feed there by day. Hundreds of them right now. It is difficult to estimate how many are in the field right now, I'm guessing more than 400 - but that's what I could reasonably report. They roost in our tree groves at night. A dozen are free flying around our property at any given moment. They have been roosting for a week, and flying around and feeding for about 2. It was a labor of love to go out into the field this morning to observe them. The flowers are taller than my knee high boots, and the honey bees and bumble bees love the field too. Didn't need one of those down my boot.

minnetrista, MN

Latitude: 44.9 Longitude: -93.7

Observed by: nancy
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