Date: 04/16/2011

Number: 1

I am not much for taking butterfly counts, in fact, I don't know really how it is done. My farm is doing research on growing milkweed commercially and I also have a butterfly flight house with summer tours concentrating on the monarch butterfly. I did notice that yesterday and today (April 16-17), I counted 3 different monarchs during an hour laying eggs on my 1/8 acre of asclepias syriaca. These are the first monarchs that I have seen here this season. This is also the second year of milkweed production.

Courtesy of Carolina Leps

Black Mountain, NC

Latitude: 35.6 Longitude: -82.3

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