Date: 09/24/2016

Number: 4000

Yippee - My wife Linda and I went to Squaw Creek National Wildlife Reserve (Mound City Missouri -- 40.0904° N, 95.2456° W) Saturday for Monarch tagging. (total of 30 people)

Final Tally - 393 were netted. Only 300 tags available :(

What a BLAST!! Certainly a life time experience. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Monarchs were observed.

I observed many on primarily Field Thistle. There were other thistle near by that were similarly covered! They also were found in abundance on wild sage and of all things hemp. They were also found in lesser amounts on primarily several types of Aster and Goldenrod.

My hunch is the totals we actually saw was well over 1,000. Now that I have the final tally numbers, it could easily have been several thousand. None that we netted were previously tagged. All appeared to be very healthy and about an equal number of males and females.

The 1,000 was just an early plugged guestimate. I feel pretty comfortable stating that we only netted at most 1 in 10. So we might have seen as many as 4,000.

This is a the container we used to collect the netted Monarchs

Mound City, MO

Latitude: 40.1 Longitude: -95.2

Observed by: David
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