Date: 09/17/2021

Number: 1

Was working in the youth garden cutting Malabar leaves at the National Arboretum. On one leaf, this monarch butterfly was stuck to a damp spider’s web. I straightened its right wing’s edge a bit, gently, put it on my wrist ( I have a photo )and placed it on a Mexican sunflower. It stayed a while. You can see it in the photo testing it’s wings. I checked a couple of times; it was still there as you see it on the Mexican sunflower but had moved forward. When I got ready to leave the youth garden it was gone. Another good deed for the day, I believe. Some of my friends call it a viceroy. Looks like a beautiful monarch to me. I hope it made it.

Washington, DC

Latitude: 38.9 Longitude: -77

Observed by: Rodney
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