Date: 09/05/2019

Number: 20

nectaring and on milkweed

My Monarch Way Station is right here in the city. 20 will come to my garden, with many more flying overhead, or down the main street. Our yards are small and houses packed quite close together. However, all of my neighbors are receiving the overflow and starting to plant Monarch-friendly nectaring patches. A few are starting to inquire about my milk weed pods to take home and plant, or take to their parents farmland and plant. I may only have 20 Monarchs at my patch at a time, but I will see dozens hovering up and down the back alley used for garages. We are also attracting many black, and yellow Swallowtails, as well as whatever the little guys are that commute about a thousand feet in large clouds.

Yes, we consider ourselves PEAK. At night they roost in our very large back yard tree.

BTW, many of my neighbors are also asking me how to start a Way Station. We may be small, but we are mighty! My husband is a manager at the St. Louis Science Center, which now has a “Grow” exhibit. Also, the Missouri Botanical Garden has a Way Station, not too many miles from us. My neighbor down the alley came and told me that her children’s K-3 has received grant money to start a Way Station!

Saint Louis, MO

Latitude: 38.6 Longitude: -90.2

Observed by: Dawn
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