Date: 09/17/2018

Number: 4

During about 90 minutes outdoors and with my gaze open, I saw 4 monarchs heading south right along the water or just behind that in the cattail marsh. Only one found the biggest brightest yellow goldenrod hanging over the marshy edge toward the shallow open water. It landed there about 20 minutes before we left and was still there when we left. This was the first butterfly I was able to watch for so long that it just stayed chowing down on a single, huge flower head. Note: about a week ago the tall joe-pie weed really easy to see finally dried up and turned to seed. Earlier monarchs were using that. Thankfully the goldenrod was already beginning to bloom when that happened. I see no wild purple asters here, so goldenrod is the last wild country food it has.

Ludington, MI

Latitude: 44 Longitude: -86.5

Observed by: Connie
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