Date: 04/13/2011

Number: 1

We had our first ovipositing Monarch on 4 kinds of Milkweed in our garden Wednesday the 13th) around 1:30. We are back in the caterpillar business in our den.

The Monarch must have oviposited nearly 100 eggs in around an hour. She stopped laying, landed on a buttonbush blossom for about 10 seconds then returned to work on the Milkweeds. We left a few in the garden and have not seen any predator activity so far.

Courtesy of Carolina Leps

Winston-Salem, NC

Latitude: 36.1 Longitude: -80.2

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