Needing Monarch Butterfly Migration Sightings
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Comments (3)I agree Butterflutter! It was posted to the Texas Garden Forum also as well as sent to many on my email address list. Maybe someone announced it here already. I've been out of town and haven't read all the more recent posts, but did look for a title announcing the program before posting. Sorry if it's a repeat....See MoreRequest for Monarch Butterfly Sightings
Comments (6)I just registered with the site, even got a password. It's lot letting me use the site map. I don't have dates, but I've been seeing the monarch for at least 2 weeks. I did have monarch eggs early this spring around May. Never saw the adults, but had baby cats. I think these were migrating north. I should be seeing some baby cats soon. I have lots of wasp in my garden, so I will need to bring some into my sunroom and raise them....See MoreMonarch Butterflies - Fall Migration
Comments (10)Those are beautiful Annie.I've been seeing more of them around here as well,usually on the butterfly bush and the dahlias. There was a smaller BF on one of my potted impatients on friday,don't know what kind it was,but it let me water the plant and didn't even fly off.Of course i steered clear of where he/she was feeding, Talked to my sister in Washingtonville N.Y. yesterday and she told me when she went out in her yard saturday,the deer had made an overnight visit and ate all her plants,and some of the deer were still up on the hill eating from the apple tree.She was very upset,as i would have been as well. Kathi...See MoreMonarch Butterfly migration
Comments (10)Our plants are so messed up. We still have white autumn asters (the little native ones) in bloom for the butterflies, but most other autumn wildflowers seem like they are finishing up, so the monarchs need to hurry up and get headed south. The last day or two, I've seen several new, freshly emerged monarchs hanging onto plants, wings stretched out---like they are drying their wings before they fly. Since the fall wildflowers are finishing up (goldenrod and liatris are done, white asters and some of the blue autumn sage still are blooming in the fields, and some of the helenium too), I think the butterflies cannot delay heading south too much longer. However, we have some spring bloomers, largely red Indian paintbrush and the pink Spring Beauties, and some tiny frogfruit flowers too, that have emerged and are blooming. I assume that they went dormant in the hot, dry summer weather as always and then, when all that heavy rain fell at the end of August, they reacted as if it were spring, and sprouted, grew and are blooming now. It is odd, but not unheard of after a very dry summer. The various types of butterflies that hang around the garden still have morning glories, four o'clocks, daturas, moonvine flowers, periwinkles, zinnias and more in bloom, but the monarchs that are traveling are going to be finding less and less in the fields at this late date. Normally the monarchs all have cleared our area by now, but I've seen some every day this week so they're obviously lagging behind. If yours left a couple of days ago, then ours should clear the area here soon. We've been pretty warm during the day, but some of the nights have been in the 40s at our house and in the 30s at our Mesonet station at Burneyville. I'm not sure what their cold tolerance is, but surely they know they need to be getting further south than here by this late in October....See Morelinda_centralokzn6
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