Date: 10/28/2020

Number: 1

At 11:15 AM today, I tagged (ABSW-274) and released a male monarch. This is the 5th Instar Larva I discovered at Harrisville Harbor on October 12th. This is the latest reared tagged monarch since record keeping began in 2010. The latest wild monarch tagged was October 25, 2017. The weather was 100% sunshine at release with the Wind WSW-18 mph. The Temperature was 41F. The high is to top out at 51F. The average temperature the past week has been 51.2 degrees with the low at 32.1 degrees. The average high for October is 58F. When I released him from my hand, he flew with very strong wingbeats straight up to over 200' before I lost sight of it. The photograph is just before release.

Harrisville, MI

Latitude: 44.6 Longitude: -83.3

Observed by: Frank
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