Date: 08/07/2015

Number: 1

After my coworker had sighted a monarch apparently ovipositing in our Ozone Garden @ the Virginia Living Museum today around 2 pm, I went out to see if there were eggs. There was a light rain falling by now and I didn't see any on the Swamp Milkweed in the Ozone Garden but did see a female monarch trying to oviposit [and succeeding once] on the Common Milkweed growing in the Virginia Garden. The leaves are wet with rain drops and the female was having a hard time hanging on long enough to bend her abdomen under the leaf. She then deposited 1 egg on top of the leaf and flew off out of sight [presumably to find shelter from the rain].

Newport News, VA

Latitude: 37.1 Longitude: -76.5

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