Date: 07/13/2002

Number: 1

I work at the University of Wisconsin Arboretum. At about 9:30 on Saturday morning I found my first Monarch egg of the season. It was on common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca, along a trail in our 60-acre restored prairie. In fact, there was another egg on a different leaf of the same plant. We have seen only a handful of adult Monarchs so far this summer--all of them female. Every year starting at about the summer solstice I turn over the leaves on just about every milkweed I see, looking for eggs. I was beginning to wonder if there would be any this year!

Madison, WI

Latitude: 43.1 Longitude: -89.4

Observed by: Kathy
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