Date: 03/03/2019

Number: 1

Sighted at Humboldt Botanical Garden, Temperate Woodland Garden

The Monarch sighting I added to the website was reported by the Garden Manager of Humboldt Botanical Gardens. She is very familiar with butterfly identification because she maintains several waystations there, where Monarchs breed late summer through fall every year. She said she is 100% positive and knows a Monarch when she sees one.

The gardens also host painted ladies, west coast ladies, mourning cloaks, red admirals, angel wings, tiger swallowtails, and other butterflies, whose larval food grows wild on the 44 acres of forests and meadows (there are no viceroy butterflies in Northern California).

Unfortunately, she was unable to snap a photo, but did say this butterfly was nectaring on rhododendrons.

Eureka, CA

Latitude: 40.7 Longitude: -124.2

Observed by: Celeste
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