We would welcome the opportunity to work with some teams in the fall and get some challenges going. We're also looking for additional sponsors for this contest. Fall is the best time to do insect collections. Insects are the most abundant at this time of year, until frost. If you anticipate having to do a school insect collection for the spring, getting a head start now is very smart.
Lights are especially good on the warm nights during the fall.
Each year in the spring thousands of Monarch butterflies migrate northward from overwintering grounds in Mexico toward Canada. They visit milkweed plants along the way laying eggs and raising broods of monarch offspring who move ever northward until late July and early August. Then the final summer generation begins its return journey south to Mexico. Hundreds of them will mass on plants along the Gulf Coast in the fall getting one last nectar meal before striking out across the water to their overwintering quarters in Mexico. Females Monarchs secrete a small amount of glue to attach the eggs directly to a suitable host plant.