Date: 05/27/2010

Number: 1

Today I noticed that the common milkweed along my driveway, that was not even showing a week ago ,is now 4 - 8 high. When I went over to check it out, it had monarch eggs on it! Funny thing is, the weather has been very warm for this time of year, lots of sun after a week of rain, and I have been observing an abundance of yellow swallowtails, red aadmirals, blues, cabbage, sulphers, sootywings, smaller checkerspots, whileI have been outside working in the garden and flower beds all week. But as of yet I have not seen my first monarch here or at the nature center gardens.

Don't know how this one got past me, sneaky little girl, but am excited that they are about a week early for this part of the state. I checked the swamp milkweed which has been up for over a week now, but it does not have any eggs on it yet. Poke milkweed is just sending up shoots, and butterfly weed has not appeared yet.

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.

Frewsburg, NY

Latitude: 42 Longitude: -79.1

Observed by: Barbara
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