Date: 08/01/2017

Number: 20

We have released over 150 monarchs in the month of August. At present we have 25 small cats. and 67 chrys. Our milkweed plants were bad this year, the leaves would turn yellow and spotted and drop off from the bottom to the tops. Because of food shortage, we gave over 153 caterpillars to four different parties this month who had healthy milkweed but no monarch caterpillars on their plants.
. The only problem we raise our eggs and relocated caterpillars into protected environment until they turn into butterflies and we release. As of today we have cut the remainder of what we of our milkweed down, so the Monarchs won't have plants to lay eggs, this has been so disheartening to do that. We released a record 450 monarchs last year and were on the way to at least that many this year, but for the lack of food.

Bossier City, LA

Latitude: 32.6 Longitude: -93.7

Observed by: earl
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