Date: 06/23/2020

Number: 1

Patches of four milkweed species (see up toward front door), butterfly bushes, agastache, bee balm, mints, salvias, asters, evening primrose, berries, carpet thyme, fruit trees, spring bulbs, lambs ears, hummingbird plant. Pollinator hotel, bare soil, bunch grasses.

Monarch visit May 15 left 40 eggs. Monarch eclosed (captive reared in mesh outside) June 21 laid eggs June 30. Female monarch viewed in front yard nearly every day.

Also viewed few bumble bees, leaf cutters, several other bees, few butterfly spp, odonata, moths, hummers, woodpecker, various birds, quail move through occasionally, deer rarely.

Bringing in more natives and reducing lawn gradually.

Salt Lake City, UT

Latitude: 40.8 Longitude: -111.9

Observed by: Adrienne
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