Date: 09/09/2006

Number: 1

Reported to monarch biologist Dr. Lincoln Brower:

I got back from VT yesterday and saw an astonishing number of 5th instar (and a few smaller) caterpillars on the milkweed there. In about 15 minutes, my brother and I collected 20 and I saw others that I did not bring in. I thought they would all go into Js but only 6 did before I left, so I had to take the rest outside and set them on milkweed to fend for themselves on the last day I was there. The weather was magnificent. In addition to the caterpillars, which may not make it to adulthood before frost, we saw adults flying around.

Weathersfield Center, VT

Latitude: 43.3 Longitude: -72.5

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