Someone told me last weekend that the monarch migration
was close to starting. That’s nonsense. If you pay attention to the comings and
goings of migrating butterflies the migration south typically begins in early
to mid-September. If the weather turns colder sooner around these parts the migration may advance in schedule. In some locales that are warm year-round like
Florida and California the monarch butter has evolved to living there
year-round. Besides, we still have
caterpillars all over the place. Just the
other morning over coffee we counted eight of them within the breadth of one
arm-span on the south side of the porch. I figure these for the third generation of the original migrators. There have got to be a bazillion of these out there. It's been a banner year for the monarchs around here for sure.....
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