Date: 07/25/2015

Number: 4

4 monarch larvae on my common milkweed seedlings. I saw them when I was watering the seedlings. Very surprised and excited! They seemed to be very small third instars, and had elated all the leaves
off of the seedlings, so I transferred each one to my much larger swamp milkweed plants, which were planted this past spring. The female monarch obviously must have preferred the little common milkweed! I checked the larvae several times and within two hours, two of them had been killed by a giant wasp, even though I had placed them way low on the plants, and they had crawled under the leaves. I quickly whisked the remaining two inside and put them on small swamp milkweed, which I also had in pots.
They each molted, and somehow one died. The other one did well, and is now in chrysalis, since yesterday, July 31.

Morgantown, WV

Latitude: 39.6 Longitude: -80

Observed by: Sonja
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