Date: 08/21/2015

Number: 27

I released 15 healthy monarchs yesterday and 12 today also from the net enclosures on my side porch. Still expecting more over the next week or so if all goes well! I did not get an exact count of males or females but it seemed that it was about equal of each. They were crowded inside my nets and very active, so it was a little hard to do! A happy 2 days sending them on their way! Even discovered one flying freely inside my side porch but could not find the chrysalis at first, since it was not in with the others. Finally found the empty casing on the UNDERSIDE of one of my garden shoes where they had been tossed inside a large plastic pot on the porch. Talk about instinct and perseverance...crawling off the milkweed down to the floor, then going up into the pot, down to the bottom of the shoe, making a chrysalis, then was able to emerge and find its way out of the pot again to fly! Always amazes me where they can get to in order to do what they need to do!

Onley, VA

Latitude: 37.7 Longitude: -75.7

Observed by: Ann
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