Date: 04/16/2015

Number: 1

I've seen a few Monarch butterflies floating about, but the first ovipositing female actually found my front yard milkweed and had a fast-food stop...she sipped nectar from the blooms and carefully place an egg on the leaf below. Pretty nifty.
I then went to my backyard to close the one netted off area that the milkweed plants that I'm keeping untouched and in reserves as the larvae grow and demolish the 11 plants I not have out. Guess who was in that "safe" house? The ovipositing female. I think I got to her fast enough that she didn't lay any eggs on any of those plants but I'll keep a close eye on them. I did manage to catch her and test her for Monarch Health Lab and put a purple tag on her for Monarch Alert.
A little later, several of the little girls in the neighborhood came to get me because they had seen a Monarch! I was the same female, and they could see the tag.
Fun day!

Carlsbad, CA

Latitude: 33.2 Longitude: -117.3

Observed by: Nancee
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