Date: 10/09/2015

Number: 50

The butterflies stop each year at our ranch. They love the big pecan tree. This is the first sighting we have had this year.

The first day to see the roost was on Sat. Oct 9th, in the afternoon when I got home at 5:00 pm. Roosted through Oct.11th.

I do have flowers planted that are butterfly and hummingbird friendly. The butterflies where not feeding on anything that I could see. I did see on your site where someone started a fine mist sprinkler in the sun and I did see some butterflies fly down actually fly through the mist, they never landed on the grass.

The temps. for Oct 9th was high of 73 low 56, Oct 10th high 70 low 52 and Sunday Oct 11th high 82 low 58. A big cold front came through in the overnight early morning hours (10/11-12) with winds gusting up to 35 mph. I have not seen any sign of the butterflies today (10/12).

The Monarchs come every year and roost. Never really large numbers just around 50 or so. I would love to help them in any way possible.

Happy, TX

Latitude: 34.7 Longitude: -101.7

Observed by: Jo Lynn
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