Date: 10/01/2015

Number: 1

The first of my backyard caterpillars that I took inside to raise into adults eclosed as a big and beautiful male butterfly yesterday. He's tagged with Monarch Watch sticker # TMX 225 and currently hanging out on one of the window screens in my backyard greenhouse. We've had a lot of rain recently and more coming so this gives him a place to shelter until he's ready to fly off through the open door. He wasn't interested in food yet this morning. I put some flowers and several nectar feeders in for him to fuel up before he goes.

Boone, NC

Latitude: 36.2 Longitude: -81.7

Observed by: Annkatrin
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