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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:

     
  • Temperature:
  • 63°F
     
  • Dewpoint:
  • 54°F
     
  • Humidity:
  • 72%
     
  • Air Pressure:
  • 28.48 inches and steady
       
     
  • LATITUDE:
  • 40.9220°
     
  • LONGITUDE:
  • -77.7642°

                        -  Tim

    Bellefonte, PA

    Latitude: 40.9 Longitude: -77.8

    Observed by: R. Timothy
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