Date: 09/09/2021
Number: 1
I hadn't been able to make any observations yesterday as it was raining. Today I made a quick survey of our various milkweeds to see if any Monarch caterpillars still remained before rain started again. I didn't find any of the previous caterpillars I'd spotted recently. But I did find a "new" caterpillar on a small, heavily stripped swamp milkweed (which has had a minimal fence around it, as seen on the left portion of the photograph) near the southwest corner of our yard. Since there wasn't much left to eat on that plant, I moved the caterpillar to a larger, fuller nearby swamp milkweed. That's where he appears in the right portion of the included photograph.
This was at about 2:10 PM with overcast skies, wind from the west at about 12 mph, and a light rain beginning to fall. Other weather conditions were:63°F | ||
| 54°F | |
72% | ||
28.48 inches and steady | ||
40.9220° | ||
-77.7642° |
- Tim
Bellefonte, PA
Latitude: 40.9 Longitude: -77.8
Observed by: R. Timothy
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