Date: 03/23/2003

Number: 1

Northwest DeWitt County: Many eggs on pasture Asclepias asperula in northwest DeWitt County today. As many as eight on one plant, sixteen on three plants in one square meter. Checked over three hundred stems (plants had as many as ten ground hugging stems!) and found about seventy-five eggs. Within three minutes two different very faded monarch females were visiting that square meter again. Victoria County: An hour late, found many, many eggs on hay meadow Asclepias viridis east of Victoria. Over one hundred eggs in a hundred foot by hundred foot square, four and five per plant. Seventh grader found a monarch hatchling, our first. Two faded monarchs females came by, then disappeared to north.

Westhoff, TX

Latitude: 29.1 Longitude: -97.4

Observed by: Harlen E.
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