Date: 10/16/2015

Number: 1

My students and I were clipping some small trees that were growing up in our prairie wildflower garden on the north east side of our school building near the playground. The milkweed pods have all open and dried. Many are already empty and the wind has carried all of the seeds away. A few of the long stems had fallen outside the garden's limestone rock border and the students were carefully admiring the hundreds of seeds and the variety of patterns in which they are set in the pod. We have talked many times this fall about the importance of not disturbing our milkweed due to the possibility of Monarch eggs. The students wanted to place the fallen stems and pods back in the garden boundaries to avoid foot traffic and the janitors mower. That's when one student spotted the single green, beautiful, delicately attached chrysalis. We all viewed it and then carefully placed it toward the back of the garden at an angled position. The temperatures have been dropping into the upper 30s at night now in Kansas so we hope it is able to quickly hatch and continue the journey.

Peabody, KS

Latitude: 38.2 Longitude: -97.1

Observed by: Jennifer
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