Date: 10/03/2017

Number: 2

Moving from the Bay Area in California I was lucky enough last year to plant 300 milkweeds plants and enjoy the sights and raise many Monarchs. I moved from here when I was 18 and remember seeing thousands of Monarchs every summer as a kid growing up. It had to be a time when the Monarchs numbered close to the billion range. I've waited all summer in hopes of seeing Monarchs around here and there hasn't been any. There is abundant wild milkweed in every field and everyone's yard. If there's a crack in a sidewalk, there's a milkweed plant. And people must realize what they are and what they mean, because they don't pull them up or destroy them as a nuisance weed. It's so good to see. But today, on the coldest morning that we've had here at our house, 37 degrees, as we drove out of our driveway we say two adult Monarchs (sex unknown) on our daisy flowers. I would have never thought I would have seen them this late into the season. I will look tomorrow to try to get pictures and get sexes of them if they are in the area. Those 2 have made my summer!!! My parents had seen one Monarch a week earlier 10 miles away and it also was their first of the season.

Winchendon, MA

Latitude: 42.7 Longitude: -72

Observed by: Bernie
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