Date: 09/09/2014

Number: 1

It's always good to see a monarch hanging like this in a tree in the afternoon. To me it means that one of those wandering fifths that nearly tripped me in the grassy path made it to butterfly. Six times during the last half of August wandering fifths were found off their milkweed plant and heading out to who knows where. I've tried to find out where, but it is tedious work to watch them accordion over grass, blade by blade, going 15 feet per hour. The sun is hot. Darkness falls. I give up and leave the secret to them. Finding one hanging in the tree in the afternoon when flowers and nectar await tells me it eclosed today. This one is destined for Mexico. I wish it well.

Goshen, IN

Latitude: 41.6 Longitude: -85.8

Observed by: Julia
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