Date: 06/19/2011

Number: 1

Finally, I found 2 eggs on my white swamp milkweed this morning! Hoping for many more. This afternoon I saw a beautiful young female Monarch checking out my whorled milkweed buds. After she left I checked for eggs and found 10, all on closed buds. I decided to cut off the egg portion of the bud and take it inside, didn't think I'd be able to find them if the buds opened up, also there were lots of spiders lurking in and around the buds. I've put each egg in a separate pill vial on a wet paper towel, hope that keeps the buds alive until the eggs hatch. Please email me if you have any suggestions on how to proceed from here. Does anyone know if the instars will eat the bud when it hatches?

Newmarket, ON

Latitude: 44.1 Longitude: -79.5

Observed by: Joanne
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