Date: 04/12/2006

Number: 1

Beginning last Wednesday, April 12--and every day through today, Monday, April 17--a female monarch has spent at least two hours in my meadow garden. Every day in the heat of the day, she is ovipositing on small sprigs of common milkweed, with well over 100 eggs deposited. It seems to be the same individual every day -- she is extremely faded but not the least bit tattered. The egg-laying behavior is unusual -- many eggs on the top-side of leaves, and often several on a single leaf. I have found no eggs on butterfly weed or swamp milkweed.

Forwarded by Charlie Cameron, Carolina Butterfly Society

Charlotte, NC

Latitude: 35.2 Longitude: -80.8

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