Date: 04/28/2014

Number: 1

Then while doing our usual Monday a.m. maintenance work in the SC Botanical Garden's butterfly garden , those of us working watched as a female oviposited on several milkweed (A. syriaca). We later saw the same/different female at the other end of the garden. Our milkweed has really flourished this year in spite of the unusually cold temperatures earlier. We don't often see many spring monarchs and sometimes, none. Just depends on where you are With temperatures in the high 70s, no rain as predicted on 3 occasions (missing the storms that had been predicted) and most days ending up with more sun than clouds, maybe we'll be lucky this year.
Today (05/01/14) I was told that one of the staff members saw several cats yesterday and more than just the 1st or 2nd instar.

Clemson, SC

Latitude: 34.8 Longitude: -82.8

Observed by: Carolyn
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