Date: 08/09/2015

Number: 4

Over the past two weeks, evertime I have collected a milkweed plant to feed to my catepillars, I find at least one egg per plant, sometimes more. Today I collected 3 sprigs (<1ft) of swamp milkweed, 2 had one egg each and one had two. I have also found a large number of 1st and 2nd instar catepillars. This is way more than I have found in the past. I have never found more than 4-5 eggs or small cats in a summer over the past 10 years. Looking good here. I have easily collected 20 eggs and 15 small cats over the past 2-3 weeks. Looks like a good year in this area. The females are really preferring swamp milkweed this year over the common milkweed. Last year it was the common milkweed with no sitings on the swamp milkweed.

Monona, IA

Latitude: 43.1 Longitude: -91.4

Observed by: Jim
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