Date: 09/14/2015

Number: 3000

McDonough County, West Central Illinois, USA
8 acre restored prairie whiteprairie.com
very rough nonscientific estimation procedure while moving about in the prairie
1. With a single individual monarch in sight, I
2. Verified other monarchs within an estimated 10 feet and
3. Walked to a new location and repeated 1 and 2
I never failed to find one or more other monarchs within 10 feet
I am certain there was at least one Monarch
for each 10by10 square (100sq ft) through out the prairie
8 acres is 348480 sq ft and would provide room for 3484 monarchs
Blooms of rigid goldenrod(Solidago rigida -almost exclusively)

McDonough County, IL

Latitude: 40.5 Longitude: -90.7

Observed by: Gerald
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