Date: 04/28/2003

Number: 1

Milkweed had sprouted in a natural area adjacent to the Lourdes College campus as well as in the Lourdes Life Lab Wildlife Garden where some of the milkweed stalks are already six inches. The Garden provides continuous flowering of nectaring as well as host plants throughout the growing season in our area. We are looking forward to seeing our first ovipositing females in the next few weeks. We sent viable seed from the Garden milkweed with school classes throughout a winter that provided ample snow cover...the activity was titled Snow Blanket Gardening. The seed was dispersed by the student participants on a minimum of 2 to 3 inches of snow in areas that receive adequate sunlight and could naturally start a Monarch Butterfly host garden on the school property. All classes were provided with an introduction to Journey North and the students were looking forward to logging in their observations. We noticed several of our field classes participated in your Symbolic Migration as well.

Sylvania, OH

Latitude: 41.7 Longitude: -83.7

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