| Comments | This is the first day that more than the usual oversummering monarchs have appeared along the mid coast. In Calhoun County six monarchs (one depositing eggs on wild milkweed) were reported near Indianola on the southwest end of Matagorda Bay, one in Port Lavaca depositing eggs in our backyard, and another late in the afternoon "cruising" near the edge of Lavaca Bay at Point Comfort. In northeast DeWitt County at least two dozen monarchs made an appearance in the afternoon. An eighth grader and her mother chased many but managed to net only two. They reported the monarchs were entering the pasture generally from the north and then disappearing to the south. In Victoria County, eighth graders reported seeing a few during the afternoon, the first that they could recall seeing any since last spring. This could be the beginning of the migration along the Coastal Flyway. Last year it was October 18 when the first monarchs began to appear in numbers per hour across Lavaca Bay flowing f |
