This Week's Update Includes:

• News: News of the Week
• Photo Gallery: Egg Hunt
• Answers from the Expert: Dr. Karen Oberhauser
• The Migration: Maps and Journal

"I haven't personally seen a monarch yet—but obviously there was at least one female!" wrote teacher Becky Collins from Nashville, Tennessee. She and her class discovered 15 monarch eggs!

Egg and Habitat Observations
People noticed details about eggs and habitat this week. What new facts can you learn from these observers?

• Oklahoma: Sandra Schwinn found 46 eggs on her milkweed plants, plus one predator: "I found a ladybug who was enjoying an egg. She has been removed!" All of the eggs were laid on native milkweed. "None was layed on the non-native (curassavica)," she noted.
• Texas: Several eggs were found in a garden in McKinney. "Some plants had multiple eggs but most had one egg per plant.
• Tennessee: "Our first monarch of the season was observed laying eggs on our milkweed sprouts in a garden area. Almost every sprout has one or two eggs. This is far different from last year, when there was so little milkweed that the female was laying over a dozen on each sprout."

Early Milkweed!
This spring's early green-up continued. Milkweed has now emerged 600 miles farther north—and as much as one month earlier—than last year! Compare this spring to last spring on the animated map.

• Please report monarch and milkweed sightings.

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First Monarch (map | animation | sightings)	First Milkweed (map | animation | sightings)