Date: 03/20/2005

Number: 1

Weather here in Baton Rouge, LA has been a mixture of cool and warm
days--including temps approaching 80 degrees. Yesterday, Saturday March
19, was 75 degrees and sunny. A bike ride through Burden Research
Station indicated that azaleas and camellias are in full bloom and trees
are greening. Dewberries are blossoming and furnishing nectar for early
butterflies: black swallowtail, eastern tiger swallowtail, cloudless
sulphur, red admiral, question mark, Carolina satyr, red-banded
hairstreak, silver-spotted skipper, fiery skipper, common checkered
skipper. However, no monarchs! Mexican milkweed, which didn't get frozen
to ground level, is now fully leafed, 2 feet tall, and budding. The
native Asclepias viridis, which did get frost-burned to ground level, is
now green, about 1 foot in height, and full of buds.

I will keep you posted on monarchs.

Baton Rouge, LA

Latitude: 30.4 Longitude: -91.2

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