Date: 05/31/1999

Number: 1

Contributed by Monarch Watch

Hi--I was excited to see a monarch (90% certain) two days in a
row in Lexington MA May 30 and 31. In each case (may have been the
same one) the butterfly was cruising over a meadow in typical
monarch flap, flap, glide flight, but it didn't light on anything,
so I couldn't see the rear wings. My question: Do viceroys have
the gliding flight of monarchs? The butterflies I saw were larger
than viceroys, I'm pretty sure. (My recent memorable trip to Mexico
to see 50 million monarchs with Bill Calvert fixed the "gestalt" in
my mind!)

Fran Ludwig

Lexington, MA

Latitude: 42.4 Longitude: -71.2

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