Date: 03/13/2006

Number: 1

Eggs, Eggs, Eggs! One or more Monarch females have been loading the backyard curassavica. Altus found some nice curassavica in six inch pots at the local WallyMart and brought four home about noon.
At four-thirty I had to move them so we could weed in the milkweed bed and noticed Monarch eggs all over the leaves, twenty to thirty eggs a plant ... Altus had seen none when she bought them. There were more than another eighty eggs on the curassavica plants around the yard plus three first instars, one second instar, and one third instar. These eggs were on leaves just sprouting! I did see one female Monarch about noon, moderate fade. After yesterday's 86 dF and 35 mph south wind, front came in at ten with 25 mph north wind and 76 dF. Wind will turn to east and south again tomorrow before another front about Wednesday.

Courtesy of Monarch Watch

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -96.7

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