Date: 05/23/2009

Number: 1

Well, although my wife "thinks she saw" a monarch last week, the proof is here today! At a local cemetary in Salem, MA, there is a large patch of common milkweed that I occasionally check for eggs and cats. Well this morning, I found and retrieved 15 eggs on several of the newer shoots. They are now safe and sound in my shed where we hatch and rear the cats. So, I have also added this to the first monarch sighting report, since, where there are eggs, obviously a monarch has been.

I just saw a black swallowtail ovipositing on a couple of our dill last evening and we have cabbage white cats on the cabbages.

Now we need monarchs in our butterfly garden on our 75 milkweed plants!

Waystation #2638 is open for the season!

Salem, MA

Latitude: 42.5 Longitude: -70.9

Observed by: Dwayne
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