PLEASE SHARE YOUR MONARCH SIGHTINGS!

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My friends Lauren from Manchester, Patti P from East Gloucester, Eric from Rockport, Cheryl from West Gloucester, and DB from Essex have all reported seeing Monarch butterflies and caterpillars in their gardens. Please keep your Monarch sightings coming (and any other beautiful butterfly or moth you may see)!

Patti shares photos from her garden –

Monarch and Eastern Tiger Swallowtail – Patti Papows ever expanding patch of Common Milkweed attracts a bevy of pollinators.

Eric Hutchins shares a photo of a Monarch on his Common Milkweed, grown from seeds he purchased at our milkweed seed sale a few years back.

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Documentary filmmaker, photographer, landscape designer, author, and illustrator. "Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly" currently airing on PBS. Current film projects include Piping Plovers, Gloucester's Feast of St. Joseph, and Saint Peter's Fiesta. Visit my websites for more information about film and design projects at kimsmithdesigns.com, monarchbutterflyfilm.com, and pipingploverproject.org. Author/illustrator "Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities! Notes from a Gloucester Garden."

4 thoughts on “PLEASE SHARE YOUR MONARCH SIGHTINGS!”

  1. July 2 was the first day I saw one lone Monarch-now they are coming three at a time and alternating between all the butterfly gardens all day long

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  2. This is year 3 or 4 of planting milkweed, it’s finally flowered and I have Monarchs as well as other butterflies. I haven’t spotted any caterpillars yer. I’m in Manchester near the Gloucester line.

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