This year has been a strange one for Monarchs in my backyard.

Usually I just get a few Monarchs passing through in the Spring and Fall Monarch migrations. My geographic location is on the Southern edge of the pathway usually taken as the Monarchs pass from Mexico into Texas, mostly between Del rio and Eagle Pass, and then spreading out in a pie wedge or fan shaped flight plan spread across the US Midwest and up to the Northeast US and even into Canada.

This year, I have seen at least one Monarch every month since March 27, through September 1st, though I wasn’t able to capture photographs of all of them. It appears that the Monarchs have either been staying around the neighborhood, or they lay some eggs, head on their way, and the newly hatched adults do a little egg laying before heading up North as well.

It is difficult to say which is the case.But I can show you some of them: (Click on the thumbnail for a larger view).

We’ll see how many come through the yard in September and October.

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