Date: 06/09/2002

Number: 1

Yesterday, and again today, we watched a monarch female depositing eggs on backyard Asclepias curassavica. This is the first female monarch and first eggs we have seen this spring here along the bay. We would expect multitudes of eggs in March, April, and May (even in January and February in warm winters) but two record breaking freezes in March set back the milkweeds in the backyard and the native milkweed A. viridis. Viridis was set back about a month by the freeze and has been slow to recover because of dry conditions. Monarchs did show up in large numbers sixty miles inland through central Texas where an early April crop of A. asperula was available.

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -96.7

Observed by: Harlen E.
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