Date: 12/01/2015

Number: 22

I am a bit late on reporting these sightings due to a busy holiday season.
I started seeing an abundance of eggs show up on my milkweed plants right after Thanksgiving. This continued through December.
There have been between twenty and thirty eggs during this time and every one of them hatched and developed to the chrysalis stage. About six of them have already morphed to a butterfly in the last few weeks. I have plenty of healthy flowering plants in my garden, so some of them fed from them before taking off.
Up until last week, our temperatures never got down below the forties with the exception of about three days. However, the past week we dipped down into the twenties so I brought the milkweeds with the chrysalises into our garage. They are back outside now that the temps are higher. Another butterfly is looking quite ready to come out tomorrow.
Am quite concerned about how the butterflies might be dealing with these temperatures.

Mary Esther, FL

Latitude: 30.4 Longitude: -86.8

Observed by: Anne
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