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    Saw a monarch butterfly today

    May not be a big deal to you but it's the first one I've seen in at least 5 years. I have lots of green and antelope horn milkweed growing but there have been no cats on them either.

    glad to have seen one.

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    How very cool. I saw them as a child living in TX and later CA; haven’t seen any since moving to VA

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    Good to hear! There are still a lot around here in Ohio, probably making it your way soon.

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    We have hundreds migrating south over the past few weeks. They head south every year in October.
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    I used to see them a lot but they disappeared from my area.

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    There have been many observation of them in Texas over the last week as they migrate to Mexico. You can see a map of them on the migration

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    Saw one last Friday while I was blowing leaves and thought, buddy you got a long way to go and looks like you got a late start. I don't think we have as many around now as when I was a kid.
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    We had a lot of them in Ohio but I've been in Missouri for 20 years and don't remember seeing one.
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    I saw the one on Saturday. That was the first one I saw in a few years. There used to be a lot of them. I don't even see the white and yellow ones like when I was a kid. back then the fields would be full of them

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    I have several places on my property where I grow milkweed for the Monarchs. I also have planted quite a few other flowers for them. I have had some show up and last year laid eggs on the milkweed and had a chrysalis and watched a Monarch emerge.

    Interesting, Monarchs have been in New Zealand and Australia since the 1870s along with some types of milkweed.

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    We've been restoring our meadow with native plants that support bees and butterflies and the transformation has been amazing. This summer we'd routinely have dozens of butterflies of 3-6 species any time you looked and 20-40+ native bee species that could be counted in any 20 minute observation period-- up from zilch when we bought the place five years ago. Monarchs are still scarce, we saw one obvious pair and a half dozen singletons over the summer. Hoping they will like the place well enough to reproduce. Lots of milkweeds here!

    Build it and they will come is the message I guess.

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    I live in northwest iowa. Monarchs are here throughout the summer. In the first week of september they migrate through here. Always within a day or two of the same time every year. They also roost in the same trees every year and on the same branches of those trees. I have never been able to figure out how they know to roost in the same tree branches, when it is obviously different butterflies every year. My son did a school project one fall that involved tagging some of them. Apparently the ones we tagged were never found, we never heard back on that, but I know some are tagged here and found a long ways away. Populations have decreased here due to having less milkweed around.

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    The monarch has declined a lot in Vermont. I saw one up high flying about a week ago; probably migrating. My wife plants for the butterflies, but the milkweed doesn't do as well at our place.

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    I am glad to hear you have them.

    A few years ago we planted some milkweed, now we have them every summer as well............Regards, Rod.

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