Date: 09/07/2020

Number: 200

Many roosting this evening, probably hundreds, at Wendy Park Reservation, Cleveland Metropark. Cleveland, Ohio.

Actually " hundreds" of monarchs, not 100. Just a conservative estimate...

Many roosts of only a few to twenty or more at a time. The monarchs seemed to prefer ends of leaved branches as well as small dead limbs. Most of the roosts seen were in a sheltered grove of cottonwood trees.

Monarchs here at Wendy Park are ignoring the field of goldenrods and preferring white boneset and a long tract of japanese knotweed near the entrance sign.

Editor’s Note: We are estimating a minimum of 200 monarchs based on observer’s description of “hundreds” and are marking this record as a JN staff estimate

Cleveland, OH

Latitude: 41.5 Longitude: -81.7

Observed by: Carl
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