Date: 04/29/2005

Number: 1

At our house in southwestern Loudoun County, VA, long. 77.79 lat 39.01, some milkweeds are up and ready for monarchs.

Although I haven't checked all of my plants, I did note 3 days ago that purple milkweed is up 8-10 inches, common milkweed 3-4 inches, with swamp milkweed just poking above the ground 1/2 inch or so. Haven't prowled around for the A. tuberosa.

I have had monarchs in the northern Virginia area the last week of April in 2 of the last 6 years.

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Loudoun County, VA

Latitude: 39 Longitude: -77.8

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