Date: 03/10/2011

Number: 1

It has been long cold months to raise eggs to monarch butterflies. It took them nearly two months to mature. Seventeen of them this time ( 8 males & 9 females). Two out of seventeen had abnormal wings. I tagged and took sample of O.e. Good thing to raise caterpillars during the winter time, I don't have ants problems. I saw two monarchs yesterday. Today one of tagged lady was busy laying the eggs on my new tiny shoots of tropical and narrow leaf milkweed. In fact, she has been doing that since yesterday. I tried to read tag, could not succeed it. I have one more wild monarch chrysalis that survived cold winter without my help.

Phoenix, AZ

Latitude: 33.5 Longitude: -112.1

Observed by: Tatsuyo
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