Date: 09/05/2017

Number: 9

Nine eclosed today. 8 Females and one lone male. The weather is not good for release, low 60s, gusty winds and cloudy. The monarchs will be spending the night in the monarch cube motel. They seem to think that that my overhead kitchen light is natural sunlight because 5 in the larger cube are in the brightest corner exercising their wings. I wondered if they could distinquish between natural and artifical light. I don't know if the artificial light give them what they need but they are exercising their wings like crazy. As soon as I turn off the light they'll rest for the night. It going to be in the mid 60s tomorrow but less wind and more sun.

Saint Paul, MN

Latitude: 44.9 Longitude: -93.1

Observed by: Linda
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