Date: 09/08/2005

Number: 1

Two Monarchs have been around the milkweed in our yard for about two weeks. At first they only seemed to be drinking nectar, but about the time the storm hit, the female started laying eggs. During the high winds caused by Katrina, the Monarchs became tattered and lost a lot of their color but they still hung on. It was amazing to watch them, as delicate as they seem, fly in the wind. At one point, the female was still trying to lay eggs as the milkweed was blown by the wind. I actually held a stem of milkweed still for her and she put an egg on it. There seem to be a lot of eggs on top of the leaf this year. I have seen a few like this before but nothing like this year. I wonder if she just put eggs where ever she could get them during the storm. There were six nice sized caterpillars on the milkweed today.

Hartselle, AL

Latitude: 34.4 Longitude: -86.9

Observed by: sylvia
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