Date: 11/01/2000

Number: 1

Two students who live about 15 miles ESE of Rochester, found our last sighting. It was the morning after a hard frost. It was a male who had recently emerged and was on the ground. Something had interrupted the process of "inflating" his wings properly. We speculated that either it had fallen while just emerged due to cold or perhaps the cold temperatures made it difficult for it to pump the necessary fluids into its wings. Whatever, the cause it was not able to fly successfully because of its less than straightened wings. The students brought it to the classroom where after a day it did begin to eat from the sugar water we prepared for it. It is now a week old. On sunny days students have taken it outside to our courtyard to sit on the mums. Here it will fly for a foot or two, but then falls. The students, Anna and Adrianne, were very happy to have been able to provide the monarch with some life even if it wasn't what nature intended.

Geneva, NY

Latitude: 42.8 Longitude: -77

Observed by: Robin
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