Date: 10/04/2008

Number: 1

My 7th grade class found 8 eggs on milkweed in our school garden. Only one lived past the very tiny stage. We do NOT know why but suspect that spraying for mosquitos in the area may have somehow poisoned the eggs before we found them. We have signs up to protect the garden from spraying in the immediate area. This was about 20 days ago, so we have a pupa case now. In 10 days or so we expect to have an emerging butterfly. We fed it on milkweed that we sprouted inside and kept growing on a window sill inside. 3 days ago we were amazed to find a small caterpillar on the little milkweed plants that had been sprouted inside and never been outside. We theorize that we somehow missed an egg on a leaf from the outdoors 20 days ago when we first found eggs? We have a tagging kit from U of Kansas.

Memphis, TN

Latitude: 35 Longitude: -89.9

Observed by: elona
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