Date: 05/09/2012

Number: 1

I found 15 monarch eggs.That mama butterfly must have been desperate. They were all on two tiny milkweed plants. Almost every leaf had an egg, and one leaf had three! This is the first time I have seen multiple eggs on a single leaf. They would not have had enough food if they had all hatched where they were. This milkweed just emerged a little over a week ago. I collected the eggs and will raise them. I did not find monarch eggs until early June last year.

Ann Arbor, MI

Latitude: 42.3 Longitude: -83.8

Observed by: Andrea
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