Date: 02/10/2015

Number: 1

Found sprouts of our first local native milkweed today, Asclepias oenotheroides, on the peninsula at the north end of the Lavaca Bay Causeway. This is four days earlier than we had recorded our find of first A. viridis a few years ago. Several days in the 80's and nights in the 60's the past three weeks and we have elm and ash trees leafing out in neighborhood ... hope we don't have a late freeze. Coldest for the area has been 30 dF in late January. We had two Monarch females ovipositing the end of January and the first of Feb on a bit of A. curassavica that we hadn't cut back ... eggs have not proven to be fertile so there may not have been any males that found them. Photos at: http://mcmc.homestead.com/feb1015.html

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -96.7

Observed by: Harlen E.
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