Date: 09/16/2019

Number: 1000

The image is distorted as it is taken with my flip phone so the monarchs appear very large. For the past 2 weeks i have seen many bunches of hundreds of them in the maples on branches and apple trees, just every where. I live on a farmstead between Iowa Falls and Hampton Iowa. For the past 5 years, the Fall population has been increasing. this is the largest I have ever seen. I let milkweeds grow in my flowerbeds and ditches. The farmer around me is all organic. flowers here are flox, goldenrod , sunflowers and many others. In the fields there are about 12 acres of prairie flowers. Not sure why they are here and not at the neighbor's a mile to the east who say they do not see this many at their place.

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Iowa Falls, IA

Latitude: 42.6 Longitude: -93.2

Observed by: Mary
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