Date: 05/01/2020

Number: 1

Single adult flying along bosque - meadow edge.

Faded pale orange Monarch, not looking fresh or newly emerged.

This is rural agricultural and pasture land. We get several species of butterflies here and I do recognize the differences. We had a storm of Painted Ladies about 3 weeks ago and the Tiger Swallowtails are lazily flying around everyday for the last 3 or 4 days. My husband is a very avid butterfly watcher and knows what is around here. As a boy he tagged Monarchs in the late 1960's in Houston, Texas when that project first started.

Velarde, NM

Latitude: 36.2 Longitude: -106

Observed by: Mary
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