Date: 05/05/2008

Number: 1

What a surprise I just had early this evening! If I did not miscount, there are 47 eggs on my swamp milkweed and butterfly weed plants! I have never seen any this early...had not even seen any adult monarchs yet! Obviously, there was a very active female in the yard today! One little tiny shoot 3 or 4 inches tall had 12 eggs just on that alone! I surely hope that there will be enough for the little ones to eat....that is if a spider or other predator doesn't intervene! Lots to be excited about here on the Eastern Shore of Virginia...(We live about 20 miles south of Chincoteague Island, Va.) My mom who lives in Richmond jokes that those monarchs sure can read my "monarch waystation" sign!

Onley, VA

Latitude: 37.7 Longitude: -75.7

Observed by: Ann
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