Date: 08/19/2020

Number: 20

They have been gathering for a few days now. I have lots swamp milkweed. Joe pyeweed is where they are this time of year.

They were gathering in the butternut tree one night and the maple tree the next night. I noticed the roost on Wednesday the 19th. It was starting to get dark so maybe 8:00. We had that storm on Friday (8/20) overnight and I noticed there are not as many monarchs in my yard now (8/23). Some must have been blown somewhere else.

20 yrs ago we used to get hundreds of them in our maple trees every fall. For about 10 years no monarchs then they started coming back. The last two years we had some roosts. Last year there must have been over 50 monarchs in one roost. The most in a very long time.

I will keep looking for more roosts.

Gaylord, MN

Latitude: 44.6 Longitude: -94.2

Observed by: Annette
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