Monarch Butterfly Good News

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6. We are north of a staging area form their flight south

We're up near the Georgia border but the monarchs from here go to St. Marks to fly across the Gulf. We had lots before Irma and I wondered if they would use the south blowing winds to get a boost across the water but we still have justas many if not more this week.

With the stuff that went on before our vacation, how exhausted that bad vacation left me, and the storm, I have not been able to pull weeds. That's OK since the most annoying ones that we call Spanish needle are some of the favorite flowers for the butterflies and bees. So they have been gorging on the nectar.

I'll wait another week or two to see how the weather goes - it's been too hot and humid to get out and do much even at dawn. But if the butterflies and bees get good out of those nasty weeds, I can be happy for them.

Maybe you need some milkweed - that is what they lay their eggs on and what the caterpillars like.