Date: 08/22/2011

Number: 1

As of today, since last week, I have found 15 baby monarch caterpillars in my garden. I have not seen many monarch butterflies, however I grow milkweed along the back perimeter of the garden so they must be coming by to lay eggs. I usually leave the eggs outside on the plants, but I see many daddy-longlegs spiders around the plants and my suspicion is they are eating the babies if I don't get to them soon enough. The problem at the end of the summer is finding enough healthy milkweed to feed them. I do have a connection with a local farmer who has a lot of milkweed on his property.

Hebron, CT

Latitude: 41.7 Longitude: -72.4

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