Common Milkweed plants show up in a number of fallow fields around here, but they typically don’t get very far (and thus do not attract Monarch Butterflies) because they get mowed several times over the course of the summer.

However, there is one field that I pass along Seibert Road on my way home from work that has not been mowed as yet, and now has numerous Common Milkweed in bloom.  As I drove past today (7/12/2023) at about Noon I caught sight of a Monarch Butterfly flitting about the field.  While I tried several times to take a picture of it in flight, it only ever got close enough to maybe show up as a single orange pixel in any of my photos.

At the time the air temperature was 81°F, the dew point was 66°F, the humidity was 61%, there was a 9 mph breeze from the west (that occasionally had gusts over 15 mph), and the air pressure was beginning to drop from 28.64 inches with partly cloudy skies.