To the Editor:

Start looking to the skies from now until mid-October for monarch butterflies, our annual orange fluttering guests, on their annual 2,000-plus-mile migration to Mexico. There will be smaller numbers sighted before and after this time period. However, the greater numbers will be more prevalent then. Last year I saw them into early November.

I have been hearing many reports of monarchs fluttering in LBI residents’ gardens this summer.

September 21, 2016