Date: 09/28/1998

Number: 1

Seabrook

Last week I reported one bedraggled monarch, its left wing about half gone. That little fellow stayed around all week, impossible to mistake for another with the major injury. STill there yesterday. Its kind of nice to be able to follow one butterfly by his build! Yesterday I found a big fat greenish yellow caterpillar that was surely a monarch larva. He was chewing away in the milkweed to make the identification even more certain. So soon a new crop of monarchs will be coming along.

Lots of fritilaries about trying to get me overexcited about the progress of the monarchs...these fellows from a distance sure look like a monarch. You have to get up close to be certain they arent.

The hummers are still all over the place; I guess they want to wait until conditions out in the gulf stabalize before they head south.

Seabrook, TX

Latitude: 29.8 Longitude: -95.4

Observed by: Donald
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