Date: 08/30/2014

Number: 1

This past Tuesday, August 26, I was watering two small swamp milkweed plants in my front yard (seedlings that I planted back in May), and a female monarch flew up within inches of me and laid about 10 eggs on them. I figured she had probably laid more eggs in other parts of the yard, but didn't have a chance to check until today. I found about three dozen eggs and 1st instar caterpillars on various common, swamp and tropical milkweed plants. This seems late in the season in Michigan for monarch eggs - hope there's enough good weather ahead for them to go through their life cycle and migrate!

Holt, MI

Latitude: 42.6 Longitude: -84.5

Observed by: Janet
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