Date: 05/21/2014

Number: 1

About 5:30 pm this evening and I saw my first monarch in the backyard circling around around newly emerged milkweeds (ca. 5" height). The temp was 86F at the time (dropped down into 50sF a few hours later), so the butterflies apparently arrived on the strong southerly winds.

It was a female and she laid an egg on Asclepias syriaca ca. 5" height in garden area (bare soil). The female did not lay on the adjacent Asclepias incarnata (approximately same height but leaves not as far along & tightly wrapped against apex, so may have been harder for the female to land and oviposit on those plants.)

Editor's Note: This sighting is also reported in "First Adult Monarch" category.

Shorewood, WI

Latitude: 43.1 Longitude: -87.9

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