Date: 09/01/2016

Number: 20

I observed and tagged this day with a friend. Most of the ones we caught were pretty ratty. My friend took me to the Horsetail milkweed site behind her house, and we saw one butterfly (unfortunately across the fence in her neighbor’s pasture). This butterfly would stop at one plant, pause for 30 seconds or so and move to another. We suspected it was egg laying. (Perhaps one month from now those will be migrating?) Another 2 (“a pair”?) we saw chasing each other…preparing to mate perhaps? Another seemed to have a course, flying around and around the field, never lighting on anything. We thought that most of these butterflies would be too damaged to make it to overwintering grounds. But this seemed to be an increase in numbers from what was seen a week ago. I netted and tagged 6. I didn't do my coordinates like you all did, and I think I have the marker in about the right place, but this is what I got from my phone. N 35 58 50.4 -106 0 52.5

Española, NM

Latitude: 36 Longitude: -106

Observed by: Douglass
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