Date: 09/22/2016

Number: 200

100- 200 Monarch's roosting in my lilac bushes around 7:00 pm.

I was so surprise to see them out there last week because I have lived here 20 years and have never seen that before. There might be clover in the empty lot close to us, but no alfalfa fields. The temperature Thursday night was very, very warm and humid, I think the low was only 72 degrees. There was little or no wind that night, but my back yard is pretty protected on all sides.

I didn’t even know they were there, until I started the lawn mower which startled them all , so I ran in to get my phone to take a picture but they were mostly gone when I got back. The next evening, I went out there, but there was only a couple dozen that night. I was such a beautiful thing to see, and to think those tiny things can make it all the was the Mexico.

Atlantic, IA

Latitude: 41.4 Longitude: -95

Observed by: Joni
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