Date: 03/22/2009

Number: 1

A wonderful week of monarch butterfly sightings here at our home. The milkweed is doing well with the recent rains and there are now a lot of monarch eggs to see on the flower buds & leaves of the native milkweeds, Asclepias viridis.

March 16 (sunny, 70 degrees): first monarch seen - a female laying eggs

March 17 (overcast, then sunny 70 degrees, 1pm) - 2 monarchs seen flying low over the pasture

March 18 (sunny, 72 degrees, 12 noon) - 3 egg-laying monarchs seen in different locations in the near pasture

March 19 (sunny, 75 degrees, 11am) - 3 egg-laying monarchs

March 20 (sunny, 78 degrees, 11am) - 1 egg-laying monarch (faded), then later at 5pm 2 monarchs flying low from west to east over the pasture

March 21 (sunny, 80 degrees, 11am) - 3 egg-laying monarchs (all faded), then later at 5pm 1 monarch flying from west to east

March 22 (sunny, 78 degrees, 11am) - 2 egg-laying monarchs and 1 male monarch nectaring on a yellow thistle (Cirsium horridulum). The yellow t

Dobbin, TX

Latitude: 30.4 Longitude: -95.8

Observed by: Kathy
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