Monarchs

[Zuma]

I have been watching the migration this fall a little more since I have been home a lot.
Also my neighbor and her children collected a few ca coons to watch pupate.
 They were on milkweed plants that are necessary to feed the caterpillars.
I think the chart speaks for it self.

[Chippintuff]

We have a few here every summer. I don't know what their route is in getting here or where they go from here. There is a field beside my house that has a lot of milkweed.

WA

[chamookman]

Here in Michigan, usually it's Mid Augus !t when the Migration begins. I believe the little Buggers wing it all the way South of Mexico  (A ! Bob)

[Hawkdancer]

We get some along the front range, not large numbers, but it is quite dry through out this region.  They are a neat sight to see!
Hawkdancer

[tattoo dave]

I have about half an acre of solid milkweed, then more randomly throughout the rest of the property. I've lived here for 3 years years now, and this year we've seen more monarchs then ever.

Tattoo Dave

[Pat B]

Years ago my wife and I were looking for a new car. We were at a car lot in Hendersonville, NC, I went inside to talk to someone and when I came back out my wife said to look up. The sky was almost black with the Monarchs a few hundred feet above us. The migration should be going over us about now but I haven't noticed any.
 I have a few small patches of milkweed growing around our property but I haven't seen any Monarchs on them. They have been past the flowering stage for a while now.

[Zuma]

Thanks Chip you are in TX?
chamook, I would guess that far north they need a little more traveling time.
Thanks dancer, you are near Denver?
Good to hear dave. They have slowed down around my place.
Pat the Monarchs passing my place should be down your way but most likely
on the west side of the Blue Ridge.
Thanks for all the reports.
Zuma

[Hawkdancer]

We are about 45 miles north of Denver, but there is so much building going on that it is hard to tell where the Denver area stops!  It is about the same distance to the commissaries, though!  But much more pleasant to drive up to Cheyenne most days!  Less traffic.
Hawkdancer

[Zuma]

Dancer, with all that construction, try finding some disturbed ground near a river or creek.
You might find some relics or Forrest Fenn's cashe.
Still a few migrants passing her yesterday.
Zuma

[Hawkdancer]

Yeah". There was a triceratops uncovered in Thornton at the Amazon Construction site last year - quite a find, nearly complete skeleton!  Gratefully, the construction company moved the work to another section, and I think they even loaned some workers to the excavation of the skeleton!  Haven't found any artifacts, but haven't really looked either!  Sooner or later!
Hawkdancer

[bjrogg]

It's probably been about ten years ago now. We had a sugar beet variety test plot on my farm. This was before the ash trees all died. I went to look at the plot and there were thousands of monarchs covering the ash trees. It looked like the pictures you see of them in the amazon. The next day I got a call from the fellow who was doing the research at the plot. He asked me if I saw all the butterflies?  I told him I did. I'd never seen anything like it before or since. Was amazing.
Bjrogg

[Zuma]

Cool info Dancer and BJ. 
it's what makes this site so worth my while.
 Jerry I hope you get to send us a photo of the three pronged monster
when they put it back together.
BJ now i will have to find the connection between the Monarchs and Ash trees.
Zuma

[bjrogg]

Zuma, not sure there's any connection. Just about the only trees that were growing in this particular location. Now there's nothing but blackberry bushes. The ash were all dead now and I took them down last winter. There on piles now for firewood. Man there was a lot of beautiful lumber wasted there.

Like is said, I've never seen it before or since. One of those things you never forget though.
Bjrogg

[ohma2]

They used to come through here like flocks ,ive seen only one this year.