Date: 09/10/2015

Number: 1000

Thousands of Monarch butterflies appear to be roosting in the trees by our home. They are making clusters of literally hundreds in each cluster on the branches of the trees, while more and more kept flying in. Amazingly beautiful sight!

The monarchs were roosting about 7:30pm last night (9/10, central time), but there were monarchs flying around the area all day, and are still many there today. We have several alfalfa fields and cornfields nearby where they were roosting. There also happens to be a lot of wild cucumber right beneath the trees they were roosting in. They weren't on the wild cucumber, but I thought it was interesting because we don't have much wild cucumber around here, and that spot happened to have a large patch. Temps last night were lower than they have been recently, and were only in the low to mid 40's. The area they roosted in has a pretty good thick tree belt on each side. I'll check again tonight and see if they have stuck around!

Anselmo, NE

Latitude: 41.7 Longitude: -99.8

Observed by: Alison
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