Date: 06/09/2014

Number: 1

One adult male monarch and two caterpillars were sighted in the Sierra Nevada mountain foothills east of downtown Jackson, Calif. on June 9 roughly 55 miles east of Sacramento, California on Asclepias speciosa milkweed plants that were growing along a roadside (17101 Climax Rd.) at 1,911 feet elevation Lat: 38.404135 Long: -120.708872. One caterpillar was in the 5th instar which means the egg that produced this butterfly was laid around May 15. One minute video:

Jackson, CA

Latitude: 38.6 Longitude: -120.9

Observed by: Paul
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