Students spot monarch laying eggs in their Kentucky garden.
"My students and I planted a butterfly garden outside my classroom window hoping that monarchs would lay eggs. What actually happened was better than I hoped for. Three female monarchs were fluttering about outside our window and one of my students noticed. The entire class (28 students) stopped what we doing and when outside to observe. All three monarchs were flying from leaf to leaf laying eggs. My students were thrilled to have the opportunity to witness this. After the monarchs left we eagerly looked to see how many eggs they had deposited. We counted over 30!"
Sheila Turner of Summit Elementary in Ashland, Kentucky.

Note about monarchs breeding in the southern U.S. states: These Kentucky students witnessed something scientists only learned during the past decade. Across the southern U.S. many people noticed monarchs reappearing in August or September and breeding. However, the information was not gathered on a continent-wide scale until recently so the pattern was not clear to scientists.