Date: 07/05/2013

Number: 1

Today I saw a female in the yard that I hadn't seen before. She left lots and lots of eggs, in fact she loaded up the tiny blossoms of the Asclepias Incarnata. One cluster of buds had 14 eggs; another had 11. In all, I found over 100 eggs. It will be interesting to see if all these eggs hatch. This will be my 4th group of eggs to raise, second from my backyard. Will be sharing the caterpillars that emerge with friends who raise milkweed and haven't been visited this year. I am reminded of 2010 when things started slowly and I raised Monarchs all summer long.

Since then (as of July 8) I have continued to find eggs everyday including more dumping on the same incarnata plants. I have found over 200 eggs in my backyard. The first eggs I collected should hatch tomorrow or the next day. I enjoy raising Monarchs; have been doing so for over 30 years.

Also seeing more Monarchs flying around in this area including at the Lake Bixhoma near Leonard. There is lots of viridis that hasn't been mowed down. I've been collecting seeds of a viridis that has red-edged leaves. There is a colony of this particular viridis growing by the lake.

How unusual is it for us to have breeding monarchs in July? It's unusual but it's happened before. It happened in 2010. I had breeding adults from June through migration that year.

Broken Arrow, OK

Latitude: 36 Longitude: -95.8

Observed by: Sandra
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