Date: 07/05/2014

Number: 2

I released 2 female monarchs on July 5 that I raised from eggs. The eggs were deposited on a friend's milkweed around June 8, and I collected the eggs and raised them in a popup butterfly enclosure. I was hoping for a male and a female, but was happy to have 2 healthy females to send up north. Having a female laying eggs here in early June was late for our normal spring migration; usually monarchs pass through here in April or early May.

Editor's Note: Because our goal is to collect data about wild monarchs --and these are hand-reared -- we have moved this observation to "Other Monarch Sightings."

Winston-Salem, NC

Latitude: 36.1 Longitude: -80.2

Observed by: Pat
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