Date: 09/06/2019

Number: 120

This has been a remarkable season. I have been able to successfully raise 3 times the total number raised in any one of the previous 4 years and I still have about 50 chrysalides or 5th instar cats to go.

This year I saw many more monarchs through the neighborhood and also noticed that more homes have been planting pollinator gardens, with many of them also including common and swamp milkweed in the plantings.

I have also found more 5th instar caterpillars this year. Whether this was due to my inattention in the previous years, higher survival rates or simply many more eggs, I don't know. But none of these 5th instar cats that I collected and placed in hampers to pupate were parisatized.

Meanwhile, the monarchs are still coming through. The females are no longer depositing eggs and the males no longer squabble with one another but instead all seem intent on just feeding.

Evanston, IL

Latitude: 42.1 Longitude: -87.7

Observed by: Michael
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