Date: 03/19/2002

Number: 1

Today (19 March 2002) Tonya Van Hook made our first census of the sand hill milkweed (Asclepias humistrata) habitat in northern Florida at Cross Creek, just south of the University of Florida. We have censused returning spring monarchs here for several years (see reference 1). Tonya called me tonight and said the plants are up, beautiful and fresh, and her search with my Ph.D. student Cristina Dockx from about 3 to 5PM resulted in locating 11 eggs. No adults or larvae were seen. This suggests that a few early arriving adults found the patch of several hundred plants. Tonya said the plants ranged from very young emergent shoots to new growth in late bud.
We will try and monitor the site for the next three weeks and will keep JN posted.

Cross Creek, FL

Latitude: 29.5 Longitude: -82.2

Observed by: Lincoln
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