You can add Washington, Manitoba, and Maine to the list of states and provinces where monarchs have been sighted this spring.

At latitude 49.2, Kurt’s sighting in Rhineland, Manitoba, on May 25 takes the temporary crown as our northernmost report of the spring as of writing.

“First one showed up in my milkweed pasture today,” Kurt wrote. Kurt also reported an egg on May 27, the northernmost egg report of the spring so far, writing, "Woohoo!!!"