This was another great year for Monarchs in St. Louis Missouri. Here is what my front yard looks like right now.
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Tom your yard and the monarchs look fantastic. This is on a different note but I release probably at least 45 pipe find swallowtail‘s this year and quite a few black swallowtail I have monarchs in my yard but not near as many as I saw and your photo.
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Awesome Tom! I have never seen so many Monarchs in such a small area. My milkweed has long ceased blooming. How did you keep yours doing so? Deadhead?
Monarchs are more abundant in migration this fall than I can recall experiencing in recent memory. Many have been migrating in the last week, especially on a recent day with NE tailwinds. With binoculars for viewing (most are out of unaided sight) I estimated they were going by at 800 per hour and that was just from where I was standing assessing from scans overhead to the NW horizon which was a line perpendicular to their generally SW flight path.
As usual on my Chinese Mantis killing spree in the prairie- killed about 75. Some Monarch wings found below their perches which are generally on Stiff Goldenrod.
Thanks again for all you do.
Mark