Date: 09/12/2011

Number: 1

What fun to look up and see my first monarch come swooping into my backyard and immediately head for the A. currasavica at 11:40 this morning!

She's large (54 mm? perhaps 55) with moderate fade (between 2 & 3).

AND she fertile! Laying eggs right and left! Seeming to prefer milkweed in the sun and not finding the A. oenotheroides much lower and in a thick clump of salvia.

She was mixing nectaring and ovipositing, and even closely examined the damp waterfountain near the flowers. I watched her land on a mulberry leaf and could be checking it for nectar from insect bites.

I got 55 fotos in about 15 minutes!

Eagle Pass, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -100.5

Observed by: Carol
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