Date: 08/30/2015

Number: 25

It was about 5:00 in the afternoon. The monarchs were roosting in a older but cleaned up shelterbelt near a newer school in town. The area was protected - south wind and they were on the north side of the shelterbelt..

There were some old crab apple trees near and cottonwood trees and hackberry trees.

Our friends have a hackberry tree that has had the monarchs every year - and many more than this some years.

We planted a shelter belt of hackberry trees and evergreen trees and plum and crab apple trees. I also have worked to grow patches of milkweed. I have had milkweed patches for 10 years. I am putting in flowering bushes like the butterfly bushes for fall nectar. The nectar sources would have to have been flowers in yards.

Editor’s note: Observer confirmed 8/30 is the night the roost formed.

Watertown, SD

Latitude: 44.9 Longitude: -97.2

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