Date: 05/18/2010

Number: 1

As a middle school teacher and citizen scientist for the Monarch Larva Monitoring Program, I was in the restored prairie at Spring Peeper with 25 of my students monitoring this afternoon, and we found our first egg after looking at over 300 milkweed plants. The head-of-the-line, scout monarch must be out ahead of the pack this week. Hopefully we will find many more eggs next week. The egg was laid on a 3 ramet group of milkweed about a foot tall. Most of the milkweed in the prairie is just beginning to come up. We marked the egg in hopes of seeing a larger instar next week. Wish this monarch well.

Editor's Note: The presence of eggs means an adult monarch has arrived in this area. Therefore, we are adding this egg report to the migration map.

Chanhassen, MN

Latitude: 44.9 Longitude: -93.5

Observed by: Cindy
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