Date: 07/31/2021

Number: 1

Monarch Blitz #4 (Donna Barski)

Please read notes for monarch sightings - Blitz #4.

I did not see any larvae on this day in the field I was checking out, but I finally found one egg on milkweed about 300 feet from the entrance to the field I was visiting. It was on the underside of a common milkweed growing in a small garden plot I created several years ago with permission of the owner of the field I visited.

Western NY weather for July 2021:

This area of NY has had much rain in July, the third most rain on record for the month.

I have not seen many monarch larvae in July. For example, I noted eggs being laid a couple weeks ago on my milkweed patch across the road from this field and small garden plot, expecting to see larvae, but I have not. I wonder if the cooler temperatures this month along with heavy rain every day or so, has slowed or prevented the development of eggs and larvae.

Town of Arcade, NY

Latitude: 42.6 Longitude: -78.4

Observed by: Donna
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