Date: 09/24/2017

Number: 25

There is a pollinator garden near the Indian Hills pond along the bike path. There were MANY monarchs on the asters. 25 would probably be a low estimate.

It was a definite west wind and it was overcast and probably low to mid 60 degrees Fahrenheit. We were out between about 1:30pm and 2:30pm. We were actually tagging them. We had time to tag 13 of them. A front was coming in and it got super windy and they started dispersing. 25 sighted was a low number...they were all over the plants. We only had one net, and several got away from us! The owner of the pollinator plot was out and said this was the most butterflies (of all sorts) that he had ever seen on his plants this year. I would be happy to go snap a couple of pictures of the area. I don't know if they guy purposely planted for Monarchs, but it is a new feature of his yard. I kinda felt like I wanted to give him an award for doing that 😊

Brookings, SD

Latitude: 44.3 Longitude: -96.8

Observed by: deb
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