September 18th, 2014

Last year, I think I saw two or three monarch butterflies the entire year. On Tuesday this week, with a grade seven class from Edna Staebler Public School, we counted 21 monarchs on a ten-minute walk to the stream. They were fluttering over the tops of a field of goldenrod, warming up in the sun. Hopefully this is evidence of a population rebound after the past few years of plunging monarch numbers.

Here is a graph from the Journey North website that tracks monarch migration.