Date: 08/27/2020

Number: 1

It was around 3PM, very breezy and warm, near 80 degrees, when I saw a beautiful monarch sipping nectar from the flowers growing in my small open wetland meadow. First , I saw it on the white Bonset flower heads and then the Monarch visited the Joe-Pye-Weed pink flowers. Because it was so warm, the monarch kept its wing folder together. So, I could not ID the gender.

Also, I did not have my camera to take a photo of the butterfly. I went back to the house to get my camera, but when I returned the monarch was gone. So, I took a photo of the flowers the monarch was fueling up on.

Earlier this summer, I observed around 10 monarch larvae munching on my Common Milkweed. Perhaps the butterfly I saw on this day was one of them and had just emerged from its chrysalis.

Arcade, NY

Latitude: 42.6 Longitude: -78.4

Observed by: Donna
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