Date: 04/30/2024

Number: 1

If you plant it, they will come.

My wife today (4.30.24) spotted our first monarch butterfly of 2024 in our backyard prairie in Tuscola. And it was a pretty fresh-looking female laying eggs on the common milkweed growing. We didn't look on every single leaf, but we counted 23 eggs.

The common milkweed at our house came up really early this year because of the mild winter — so this female didn't have to look hard at all to find milkweed for her eggs.

Tuscola, IL

Latitude: 39.8 Longitude: -88.3

Observed by: Cindy Kirby
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