Date: 06/12/2019

Number: 13

It was 6:20-6:30 in the evening when I saw this large number of 13. They were feeding on the wildflowers and alfalfa-not much had bloomed yet. No obvious milkweed plants in the area. The monarchs were all spaced roughly 25 feet apart as they went from bloom to bloom, some were just resting on the plants. So they weren’t clustering or interacting with one another.

The place I walk is on our town dike. There is not much milkweed right there, but within 200 feet there would be scattered small plants that survive the farm treatments.

Do they have times of the day where they are more likely to feed? Does nectar flow more easily at certain times?

Last year I had a large ice ballet milkweed, but I damaged the tap root (was unaware of the need to watch for that) when I separated it last fall. It has sadly not come back, but I have another 10 small milkweed of other native varieties so I’m hoping to see them take off.
The past week around here we have seen daytime temperatures of 20-25 Celsius and as low as 5 Celsius at night.

Note: I have been walking along this one mile (return =2 miles) stretch for 6 years, and fall of 2018 was the first time I had seen any monarchs there. I mostly noticed them in August/Sept and logged that on your site.

Morris, MB

Latitude: 49.3 Longitude: -97.4

Observed by: Tracey
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