Date: 07/02/2022

Number: 6

A dearth of monarch butterflies this June.

From the common milkweed plants in my home garden in Overland Park, KS in June of 2020, I found and raised thirty nine caterpillars to become butterflies. In June 2021 the number was sixty that I successfully raised to be butterflies. This year, in June of 2022, even though I have checked every morning, I have only found six caterpillars around two and a half weeks ago. They have just now formed their chrysalis. We have not seen any monarch butterflies at all flying around, and we have plenty of milkweed to attract them.

Overland Park, KS

Latitude: 38.9 Longitude: -94.7

Observed by: ROBERT
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