Many Monarchs here yesterday on the New England  asters....Gorgeous sight!
Donna Nelson


Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 08:36:28 -0400
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Subject: Re: [UVB] monarchs
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On 9/15/2012 6:49 AM, Bill Shepard wrote:

Yoicks. 

 

Lelia planted a “Mexican Sunflower” in the garden. Not sure if that is right, but..

 

Yesterday there were 9 monarchs on the plant (rather tall and full of flowers).  All had a new look about them.

 

Fun year for monarchs !!

 

BS

 

I was going to make a similar observation. This does seem to be a better year than usual for monarchs---at least in comparison with the last 2-3 years.

         Rob Humphries