Date: 06/01/2008

Number: 1

Verification of Monarch sightings (see report on sighting for Minneapolis) was made on 6/1/08 by finding the first Monarch eggs. Only 1 egg was found on a milkweed at the Minnesota Valley Nature Center. The milkweed there seem very far behind compared with last year. On the same day, 29 were found on 25 common milkweed in my yard (20 eggs laid singly on 20 plants, 3 eggs laid on one leaf, two eggs on one leaf on two different plants and 2 eggs laid on separate leafs on one plant). Then again on 6/3/08 another 2 eggs (1 per plant) were found in my yard. The weather since 6/1 has been very cool, cloudy and rainy, so have not seen any additional monarch's flying.

Minneapolis, MN

Latitude: 45 Longitude: -93.3

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