Date: 05/20/2012

Number: 1

The first shoots of milkweed appeared on the south side of my building where I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba located in the north east side of the province. These first shoots of milkweed I saw on May 20, 2012. Next Day I went to a park not to far from my place but more north thinking that I would find more milkweed their but their was nothing at all...I scrapped the ground in those usual places where their was milkweed last year but their was nothing at all. Four days later on May 24 it was a nice sunny warmer day and their were lots of monarch butterflies all of a sudden and on that Thursday morning I went to look at the milkweed on the side of the building where I live and the little milkweeds all had eggs on them some leaves had 3 and 4 eggs on them. So the next day I went to two other sites where their is usually milkweed but their was no milkweed and fewer butterflies. Two days later I saw signs that the City of Winnipeg had sprayed a pesticide for some type of insect on trees in the last twenty-four hours so it said. I never saw another butterfly since May 24th. And our weather has been very cold, rainy and wet since that last beautiful day! Today it's May 28, it's still cold and rainy in Manitoba, the current temperature at 7pm is 11 celcius, overnight temperature will be 5 celcius with light rain until tommorrow with similar temperatures - it may warm-up by friday and hopefully maybe we will see some butterflies again if we are lucky!

Winnipeg, MB

Latitude: 49.9 Longitude: -97.1

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