Date: 10/02/2019

Number: 1

While salmon fishing the Salmon River in Pulaski, NY, I noticed multiple seed pods on milkweed plants. On one stem we gathered was a caterpillar. We were vacationing in an RV and I did not have my enclosure. The caterpillar apprared ready to J so I kept it secluded and watched it and sure enough it did J. Now my escape worries were over for ten days or so. I hung on the stem until the leaf dried up so I repositioned the chrysalis on a stem I gathered in the campground we were in. The monarch emerged right on schedule on Oct 2, 2019. Having raised and released 75 between March & July this year and many more last year, I knew that after a few hours of wing drying time, the new beautiful Monarch would be crawling around, fluttering and flying about. After a couple hours for this to occur, I took the stem I'd repositioned it on out to the garden and placed it near some delicious pollen flowers. The butterfly remained on the stem a bit longer thru the afternoon, but by late afternoon he (yes it was a beautiful male) was gone. The thing is that he was no longer in Pulaski, NY, we had moved to Ocean View, DE by October, thus giving him a head start in his migration. Was a wonderful experience and I have many milkweed seeds besides for spring planting. Trish

Pulaski, NY

Latitude: 43.6 Longitude: -76.1

Observed by: Trish
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