Date: 09/20/2015

Number: 22

During an afternoon walk at Leslie Spit -an artificial peninsula on the east side of Toronto- (~2-3:30PM) we saw 22 monarch butterflies. More than 2/3 of them in a time period of ~ 15 min, while we walked at the base of the peninsula.

We saw no dragonflies, so I assume at no major flock of Monarchs were in the neighborhood? This low number of Monarchs seems to be much lower than what we saw last year (~75 ) at about the same time of year as well as a sunny Sunday.

Furthermore, I have not seen a single Monarch anywhere in the City of Toronto. Our own butterfly bushes died two years in a row due to ice-storms one year, and endless frost the next year.

Hopefully, it is only me who sense the sparseness of Monarchs
in Toronto this year?

Toronto, ON

Latitude: 43.7 Longitude: -79.4

Observed by: annelise
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