Date: 05/12/2014

Number: 1

I'm on a three-way conference call at home when I glance out of the window and see ... fluttering orange! It was a very worn female monarch flitting among the 2-inch high milkweed shoots. The shoots came up this weekend and two days later there is a monarch, worn from the journey, laying eggs. The conference call was completed outside as I waited with the camera for a shot, phone hitched to one ear. Unbelievable that this monarch has arrived so early, in such a worn-out state after the poor overwintering reports. Happiness.

Goshen, IN

Latitude: 41.6 Longitude: -85.8

Observed by: Julia
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