Modified: 2023-10-19
This page reports monarch butterfly sightings by members of the Physiological and Comparative Psychology class at Southern Arkansas University.
Mckennah Sikes reported (2021-09-30): I am currently on my way home in Oklahoma and just saw not one, but TWO Monarchs a few seconds apart. They were flying West!
Sidney Phillips wrote (2021-10-04): I have seen two monarchs flying southwest from Mayflower AR. I have also seen a butterfly flying northwest from Greenbrier AR, but I'm not sure if it was a monarch I was too far away to tell.
Alyzah McGlasson noted (2021-10-05): I spent this weekend in New Mexico at the Albuquerque ballon fiesta. On our run Saturday, I saw a monarch flying south. [notice how that makes sense, the Mexican highlands where the monarchs overwinter would be south from New Mexico.]
Jessika Williams spotted one (2021-10-3): I went for a walk at Bringle Park [Texarkana, TX], and I noticed one on a leaf. It was not flying, so I am not sure which direction.
Hannah Dickerson was driving (2021-10-03): Yesterday I was driving home through Emmet, AR and I sighted a monarch butterfly. It was flying towards the West.
Ed Kardas (10-6-21): I saw one flying southwest through the intersection of Jackson and Columbia at 3:30 pm.
Victoria Caldwell (2021-10-7): I wanted to report that I have only seen one Monarch butterfly thus far. I spotted one last Sunday October the 3rd while traveling past Taco Bell heading south.
Samantha Evans (2021-10-7): I saw a monarch butterfly the other day here on campus. It was heading southwest toward Columbia Hall.
Brendan Crow (2021-10-07): I saw a Monarch Butterfly while I was at work yesterday around 5. It was flying really low but it was going east.
Kimberly Beaver (2021-10-8): I finally sighted a Monarch! I was sitting on my porch this morning at home in El Dorado, which faces South, and a Monarch flew right in front of me flying towards the West.
Here are a couple of photos of monarchs taken recently:
I snapped this last Thursday (10/14/21) at 2:30 in west Magnolia
Jessika Williams shot this photo in Ben Lomond, AR on 10/14/21
Madison Monson (10/21/21): I am emailing you about the number of monarch butterflies I saw today while I was at softball practice. I wasn’t able to capture a picture, but I counted a total of 9! It was around 5pm and they were heading toward the sun, which was setting in the West! They were of all sizes and very beautiful!
Charlotte White (10/24/21): Professor, I got lucky today. I sighted a Monarch while sitting at Old City Park today in El Dorado, AR around 4:20pm. The one time that I decided to leave my phone in the truck.
Ed Kardas (9/23/22): Just East of Nelson Hall. It flew over the building at 12:40. I did not see it afterwards. I tried to make a video but could not get ready quick enough.
Gregory Hilliard Jr. (9/23/22): I saw one yesterday at my Fiancée's house. She lives on the Ouachita River near Moro Bay.
Shannon Evans (9/25/22): I had saw 4 monarch butterflies in Louisiana this weekend and thought to tell you about them!
Carmen Bryant (9/26/22): I saw a beautiful Monarch at my home today September 26th, 2022 in Hampton, Arkansas. I seen it at 12:48 pm heading south.
Callie Blair (3/24/23): My name is Callie Blair and I'm a graduate student studying College Counseling and Student Affairs at SAU Magnolia. When I was getting my Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, I was in one of your classes at one point. I remember that we were able to get some bonus points if we happened to see a Monarch butterfly during their Winter migration and reported it to you. I didn’t see any at that time, but today, I saw one dancing in the wind in my front yard in Camden. This isn’t the time of year for their great migration, of course, but I read this is when they begin laying eggs for said migration, so I thought you might be interested all the same.
Ed Kardas (3/24/23): What you probaly saw was a survivor of the fall migration, one that overwintered in Mexico. That generation will reproduce and die. Then, four or five generations will follow and the last will migrate South.
Ed Kardas (10/09/23): Sorry to report on a monarch that will not make it to Mexico. 
I saw this one on a car in Reynolds lot :-(
Lillian Jones (10/10/23): I saw one yesterday in my yard!!!
Bebee Mesa (10/08/23): My name is Bebee, and I am one of your students in Phys-comp. This past Sunday (on 10/08/2023) I was leaving my church (Unity Church Magnolia), as saw a monarch butterfly headed towards Chicken Express/ Walmart area around 12:20-12:30pm.
Ed Kardas (10/19/23): Saw one today at about 4:20 pm. It was near Hazel Cir. It was cruising SW and flew right over my house.