Date: 04/14/2006

Number: 1

About 3pm today while out walking, I came across a Monarch ovipositing on Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) shoots that were only 1-3 inches tall. I watched as she laid 26 eggs and then flew away. I collected about 20 (she had
already been depositing before I got there).

As I walked home I checked the milkweed sprouts at my house, but they were all clean.

This evening at 7pm I checked the sprouts in front of my house and found them loaded with eggs, about 8 per sprout. As I walked back to the house, 2 Monarchs floated by heading back toward the milkweed patch.

Reported for Jim N. by Charles Cameron, Carolina Butterfly Society

Pfafftown, NC

Latitude: 36.2 Longitude: -80.4

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