Date: 05/21/2007

Number: 1

Here at "Waystation 686", in se Chautauqua County, NY the elevation is almost 2000 feet & we are still getting heavy frosts at night. Common milkweed is just starting to break ground, swamp milkweed is not showing yet, and I haven't seen the tuberosa yet either. At the nature center near us which is at a lower elevation, I checked the butterfly garden there on Saturday and the tuberosa is just breaking ground. Dogbane is up 6 -8 inches and for the world looks like swamp milkweed, had me fooled for a minute then I remembered the patch of dogbane thatgrew there last year, and that the the only swamp milkweed we have there is growing back along the swamps. Didn't get a chance to walk over to the field where the common milkweed is, but am sure it is up now also.

Courtesy of Monarch Watch

Frewsburg, NY

Latitude: 42 Longitude: -79.1

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