Date: 06/14/2014

Number: 1

About 3:00pm, I stopped to water one last area of our yard before calling it a day. Good decision! As I bent down to pick up the hose, a female monarch fluttered in front of me. I immediately followed her as she circled our home. She ended up at our "lilac hedge," which had two lilacs blooming. But she wasn't there for the lilacs. Surrounding them, we had planted 5 common milkweed two years ago, which had now overtaken the area with at least twenty 2-3 foot high new shoots. Over the next 3-4 hours, she laid about 80 eggs, laying as many as four eggs on a single leaf. I collected them all and brought them inside to "Raise and Release." Thirty eight of the eggs hatched June 14th. By June 17th, three had molted and I can see their tiny black "horns." Wish me luck! This is my first time raising monarchs.

Emigrant, MT

Latitude: 45.2 Longitude: -110.8

Observed by: Dorothy
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