Date: 09/25/2015

Number: 200

After catching and tagging 56 monarchs from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in an alfalfa field we walked the shelter belt, finding many monarchs roosting in locust and green ash. The belt also contained cottonwoods and red cedars but we did not observe any on those trees. However they could have been on those trees also - it's a long dense shelter belt probably 3/4 mile long. Weather was cloudy, low wind and about 72 degrees. The monarchs were nectaring on alfalfa then flying into the trees. They were also in the same belt that morning (9/25), leaving roosts at 8:30 a.m.

Editor’s note: Observer confirmed 9/24 is the night the roost formed.

Great Bend, KS

Latitude: 38.4 Longitude: -98.8

Observed by: Pam
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