Late this morning (~11 AM, 8/3/2025), my wife and I headed out looking for Milkweeds and Monarch Butterflies in order to participate in the 2025 International Milkweed & Monarch Blitz.  As I have noted in earlier postings this year, despite having numerous Asclepias (i.e., syriaca, incarnata, and tuberosa) plants growing in the gardens around our house, thus far this summer we have seen very few Monarch eggs, caterpillars, or butterflies.

Nonetheless, we were hopeful that we might find some Milkweeds and Monarch Butterflies at various locations in the Bellefonte and State College area where we have found them in previous years.  In other words, our plan is similar to what we attempted during last year’s Blitz.  We plan to confirm if there are Milkweeds in any of those locations this year, and if so, report them in a set of separate Milkweed sightings for each location today (this being our third such 2025 Milkweed Blitz sighting).  (We will do a separate set of sightings for each of those locations at which we find any evidence of Monarchs.)

Our third stop, at about 12:30 PM EDT, was at the Wildlife Restoration portion of State Game Lands #333 on the east side of Shiloh Road north of I-99 east of State College, PA.  It has areas of Common Milkweed interspersed with a variety of plants coming into bloom that are excellent nectar sources.

At the time, the air temperature was 77°F, the dew point was holding steady at 57°F, the humidity was about 50%, a light breeze of about 6 mph was blowing from the South under fair skies, and the air pressure was 28.90 inches and slowly dropping.

Latitude:       40.85°N
Longitude:    77.80°W

        - Tim