Date: 09/23/2015

Number: 1

Still only single butterflies...this one is number 5 for the year. It was headed south on a NW wind so I was unable to sex it...too far and too fast to see sex. It skipped my flowers although it flew over them--may have loaded up on the neighbors' flowers before me.

I got 8 more Ice Ballet swamp milkweed to put in my flower beds! The Ice Ballets were the only milkweed variety that I got eggs or catepillars on this year (only 2 but better than none). (I am in VA and have butterfly weed, common milkweed and the pink swamp milkweed in flower beds. All but the butterfly weed plants are first year plants.) I plan to add more plants next year. I will also harvest seed pods next year for Monarchwatch. Go Monarchs!!!

weather--partly sunny, low upper 50's (high forecast for around 80 F) currently 69 F at 10 am, winds from NW around 10-15 mph (definitely breezy but no whitecaps on the river).

king george, VA

Latitude: 38.3 Longitude: -77.1

Observed by: jessica
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