Date: 10/23/2018

Number: 59

Flying south down the ocean dunes.

I am confident the butterflies I counted are monarchs. I saw a few of those Gulf Fritillaries last year in the dunes but not this year yet. There are also smaller orange butterflies going down the dunes we believe are probably Admirals but I don't have a picture of those and have not included them in my count. I also saw a few small yellow sulfur butterflies but did not count those, either.

Do you happen to know how they fly with the ocean wind current or how far off land they fly? I only see monarchs coming off the ocean (not sulphurs or admirals). Oddly, no monarchs fly out to the ocean, and no one flies north.

Myrtle Beach, SC

Latitude: 33.7 Longitude: -78.8

Observed by: Susan
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