Date: 04/17/2002

Number: 1

We finally found some milkweed coming up in our outdoor classroom. It does
not have full leaves on it yet (4/17/02) but we know it is the milkweed from its
location in the garden. It is A. tuberosa. It is emerging just in time
because we have had some female monarchs laying eggs on some tropical
milkweed. There are far too many eggs on this milkweed to support the
larva. (There are six plants, and they are very small with only ten to twelve good leaves
per plant . I would estimate that there are twenty to thirty eggs on each plant.)
There are eggs underneath and on top of most of the leaves. We
went to every nursery in Texarkana yesterday looking for milkweed and only
found two very small plants.

We still have not found and of the A. virdis any where around here. We have
been to Grandview (the blacklan prairie) twice - but no milkweed. The
weather is warming up nicely, so maybe we will begin to find more.

It is not a good feeling to know you are going to have a lot of hungry larva and do not have enough milkweed to feed them.

Texarkana, AR

Latitude: 33.5 Longitude: -93.9

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