Date: 09/16/2016

Number: 1

I have fresh milkweed, perhaps 20,000 plants with "local" monarchs that only come this far north in the spring. I suspect they are genetically similar to the Ice Age monarchs that could not travel any farther north than Texas 12,000 years ago. DNA has shown us mother nature keeps coding even after the majority of the species do not use it. So, this week my local monarchs were mating and laying eggs on fresh milkweed. True northern migratory females will never mate until next spring of 2017.
These local monarchs are worn and the migratory ones would look fresh. We have no migratory monarchs in this area yet. :)

Jim McDermott -NE Kemp Texas

Kaufman, TX

Latitude: 32.6 Longitude: -96.3

Observed by: James
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