Hello Couchiching,
I want to thank you for your participation in the monarch monitoring program this year! Monarchs will be heading South through September and October so you are unlikely to find any eggs or caterpillars at your site but volunteers are welcome to make one more monitoring visit in September.
It has been an interesting season of monarch monitoring with some sites having very few observations while Grant's Woods had an explosion of monarch activity at its little patch of milkweed. It brings up interesting questions such as "what properties of a milkweed patch attracts butterflies to lay their eggs there" and "what factors impact caterpillar survival". Read on in this newsletter to find some insights into these questions.
Aiesha
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