Date: 09/26/2014

Number: 1

Summary and comments for two months of observations.

I am posting this summary first, so I can add a link to it in the individual sightings.

From July 16 to Sept 25 I have seen Monarchs on 19 days. Virtually all were chance observations. All but a couple were next to ponds of creeks with plentiful food sources. On some days saw Monarchs as many as 25 times, but number of individuals was likely far fewer. The Monarchs were flying around a pond or up and down a creek with no evidence of directional flight for any sighting. I may have seen the same individual on several days, but few had distinctive features. I just saw the same individual, with distinctive wing damage, at the same location from Sept 21 through Sept 25.

Every sighting I could identify by sex was male. No definite females. From wing markings I was able to determine sex on at least 90 percent of sightings, almost all from photographs, plus a few clear visuals. On the rest the wings were partly obscured in photos, or distance too far for visual.

The last previous sighting was May 18, a 59 day gap. Those were from what appeared to be small bloom of Generation 1. (Last spring sighting is typically before the end of May, both for worn Gen 0 and fresh Gen 1.)

Chalk Mountain, TX

Latitude: 32.1 Longitude: -97.9

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