Date: 08/21/2015

Number: 2

We've released 54 monarchs so far from eggs we've collected from common, swamp and whorled milkweed since we found our first egg on June 14th. 1 monarch fell from the chrysalis before it's wings dried. The wings were a bit crinkled, but it was able to fly. This is the first year that 2 of our caterpillars died within the first day of hatching and 12 eggs didn't hatch, 8 were on swamp milkweed and the others on common. Most eggs just turned black, the rest stayed yellow. This happened to the eggs found in August which was very dry. We tagged and released 2 monarchs today, a male and female. We hope to tag a 100 this year, including wild ones.

Allenton, WI

Latitude: 43.5 Longitude: -88.4

Observed by: Darleen
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