Date: 01/01/2013

Number: 1

There are Monarchs about our yard all winter. They lay eggs on the milkweed and we baby the caterpillars while they munch on the milkweed in the garden and in cages to keep the wasps at bay. When the nights go below 60 degrees we put them in warm quarters. They just about ate all the milkweed in the yard. I was trying to buy more but none of the nurseries had any.But we scraped by and had just enough to last until the plants recovered and leafed back out.
When the cocoons hatch into Monarchs we release them. Today we released only one butterfly but we usually release between 4-10 a day in the winter.Today there were three other Monarchs in the yard all day.At least one female is laying eggs.
The Monarchs are usually sighted about the yard until March when there are fewer about. But since we have lots of milkweed there are Monarchs about all year long.

Port St Lucie, FL

Latitude: 27.3 Longitude: -80.4

Observed by: mamie
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