Date: 10/14/2018

Number: 1000

I had around 400+ monarchs in my yard in southern Dallas County, TX on Friday. It rained Saturday and now (Sunday, 10/14) with the sun out there are even more. This afternoon — before the cold front with accompanying storms blew in — I did a walk around and counted a little over 1,000 in my yard, which is an acre and a half heavily planted with nectar plants. Unfortunately, I found one male monarch who had clearly been tagged — perfectly round circle on the ventral left hindwing where the scales were missing — but no tag.  I’ll be keeping my eyes open for others. There is definitely no shortage of nectar around north Texas.  LOTS of goldenrod, Maximilian sunflower, common sunflower, gayfeather, heath aster, etc.  They won’t go hungry, but first they’re going to have to settle down until Wednesday when things will warm back up.  Monday and Tuesday will only have highs in the 40s. 

Glenn Heights, TX

Latitude: 32.5 Longitude: -96.9

Observed by: Dale
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