Date: 08/24/2015

Number: 3

I have been carrying on a conversation with Marie P in Jamestown, Guilford County, NC, for more than a week now. She has about eight or nine species of milkweeds planted in various places on her farm property (including a couple of midwestern species she’s trying out). Within the last few days she has seen Monarchs flying around almost every day, once as many as three separate adult Monarchs.

I got to visit her yesterday, 8/24, and we found an almost uncountable number of caterpillars of different instars on 6 Milkweed species including Aclepias curisavica, A. exaltata, A. incarnata, A. syriaca, A. tuberosa, and A. verticillata. We would find only one or two on some plants, then on others it seemed like there would be one or more on almost every stem. Marie had counted 2 caterpillars on one plant a couple of days earlier. A conservative estimate yesterday would be a total of 50 caterpillars! During the two hours we spent looking, we saw one adult female Monarch on several separate occasions, so it was impossible to tell if it was the same one each time or different ones.

Courtesy of Carolina Leps

Jamestown, NC

Latitude: 36 Longitude: -79.9

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