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This afternoon, I did my standard walk around our field of milkweed and scared up 72 fresh Monarch butterflies (all wild). The warm evenings, and warm wet day yesterday probably encouraged many eclosures but they stayed around yesterday (and survived). What a pleasure to walk by plant after plant and have a Monarch fly up. As a comparison, last Sunday the same walk gave a count of 41, while the numbers were down to 28 on Wednesday (I think many had left). We had 140 mm of rain at our place yesterday and it battered down a few milkweed plants but generally most of the flagged chrysalis in the field survived. We have released 118 Monarch from protection so far and tagged 70 of them. So I suspect that many of you will begin to see more Monarchs as they head south. Larry -- Larry Bogan <larry@bogan.ca> Brooklyn Corner, Nova Scotia
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