Date: 05/01/2006

Number: 1

49 eggs were found on milkweed plants growing along a railroad track in Marietta, PA. It appears that the female followed the tracks, layig along the way. A line of flowering crabapple trees also runs parallel to the tracks, and that may have attracted her initially. Judging from the size of the leaves the eggs were laid on, I am certain that they were laid the same day I found them. Most of the plants contained more than one egg. One plant had 5.

(The presence of monarch eggs is evidence of an adult female monarch, so is being reported here as first monarch sighting.)

Marietta, PA

Latitude: 40.1 Longitude: -76.6

Observed by: Gayle
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