Date: 03/20/2015

Number: 1

3:00 pm 83 degrees. School had let out and all were headed home for the weekend. As I watered the milkweed plants a butterfly fluttered down. Quickly I motioned for some students at the after school program to come and see it. Gabi, Mirna, Madison and Carter squealed that it was a Monarch! We had just heard of the delay to the migration the day before. We need to learn how to tell if it is a male or female. We are wondering if it is from Mexico or a butterfly that was hatched in the area. It settled on the blooms and picked threw them. Then it would go to a leaf and crawl around resting in spots here and there. It has stayed by the plants for 20 min. It never landed on the flowering sage.

La Mesa, CA

Latitude: 32.8 Longitude: -117

Observed by: Karen
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