Date: 04/09/2015

Number: 1

This was a very windy morning, cloudy, with a temperature around 78 degrees F at 11:30am. I saw a lovely monarch fluttering around some blackberry blossoms and grapevines lining a fence near our house. It seemed to be either nectaring or drinking dew ~~ I didn't get close enough to tell whether it was a male or female.

I went down into the pasture and found an egg-laying female who also was taking breaks to rest on tree leaves and nectaring from tiny pink flowers. It is her photo below.

In the upper pasture I saw another monarch female laying eggs, often flying straight into the gusty wind.

Later, in the afternoon, I went outside and saw a male flying around our back yard and a female laying eggs in our front yard. I made a quick check of a few of the milkweeds along our driveway that I knew had eggs and found two newly-hatched larvae, each one on a separate leaf of the same milkweed plant. Wonderful sight!

Dobbin, TX

Latitude: 30.4 Longitude: -95.8

Observed by: Kathy
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