Date: 06/04/2016

Number: 4

The Carolina Butterfly Society sponsored a butterfly walk this morning at Yates Mill County Park, south of Raleigh, and then quickly (quicker than we expected) went over to a nearby NC State U. experimental garden along Mid-Pines Road. The experimental farm area has a field strip planted heavily in common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) and also in butterflyweed (A. tuberosa); this strip is several hundred yards long, and maybe up to 40-50 feet wide. The common milkweed had most of the butterflies.

Monarch 4 both sexes present at the milkweed strip

Courtesy of Carolina Leps

Raleigh, NC

Latitude: 35.8 Longitude: -78.6

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