Date: 03/14/2012

Number: 1

A report from suburban Bergheim:
Last evening (3/14) I checked my milkweed patch, Rocky Flats II (50.4 sq.M) and found an egg on the first antelope horns that I checked.
WOW, I thought.............then I looked up and there was a faded but not tattered monarch flitting about no more than a foot to two feet off the ground, dipping to check vegetation. She was definitely in an egg laying mood. I never saw her land on anything but I feel sure that she was the one who laid the egg.
Then BINGO, I checked the remaining 12 milkweeds in the patch and found a total of 27 eggs! One plant had 7 eggs on it and only 5 plants had just 1 egg. Twelve of the 13 milkweeds that I found had eggs on them.
I just got back from walking my dog up my short (0.2 mile) street (3/15).
I decided to check the A. oenotheroides that grows in the ROW. The first palnt that I checked had 2 eggs on it.
This is the first time I have seen any eggs on Hierba de Zizotes in the ROW or on my property.

Bergheim, TX

Latitude: 29.8 Longitude: -98.8

Observed by: Ridlon
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