Date: 10/27/2015

Number: 8

I'm a retired college professor living on a small farm 12 miles north of Beeville, Texas. The habitat here is typical south Texas brush with live oaks sprinkled in. Soil is mostly caliche.

While having lunch today at a cafe in downtown Beeville, my wife Karen and I noticed a Monarch flying across the street at the top of a stand of bamboo. Monarchs are not common here, so that got my attention. This afternoon (back at the farm) we had a limited flight of Monarchs, maybe six to eight per hour over our yard of about an acre. There were lots of Gregg's Mistflowers blooming and the Queens were all over it, but the Monarchs were keeping an altitude of about 15 to 20 feet above ground and moving from east to west. Once I saw a pair down on a Esperanza bush, but that was the only time they took a break from flying over.

Courtesy of TX- BUTTERFLY

Beeville, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -97.8

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