Date: 06/01/2008

Number: 1

While weeding today we spotted a Monarch larva...3rd instar I think.
We have lots of milkweed up now, A. Incarnata and A. Sryiaca...but the instar was not on them. It was found eating the tiniest of leaves on a seedling A. Incarnata that I raised from seed. The plant is only about an inch and a half high. Because I have a family of 5 baby bluebirds only a few feet from this garden, I brought the instar in fearing he might be served to one of them by foraging parents. After examining all the milkweed plants looking for eggs, I was surprised to fine only one egg. So I brought that in as well. Imagine...only one egg and one instar. Nothing more. How strange. And I have not seen a Monarch since the first week in May.

Courtesy of Monarch Watch

Lake Geneva, WI

Latitude: 42.6 Longitude: -88.5

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