Date: 04/25/2016

Number: 1

I was happy to see a very worn female Monarch in Raleigh yesterday (April 25th) looking for milkweed on which to lay eggs. This is a couple weeks later than usual for our area. With the winter calamity in Mexico I really wasn't expecting any of the overwintering Monarchs to make it this far, and maybe this was a first generation butterfly, but she looked pretty faded so my impression was that she was a butterfly that wintered in Mexico. No eggs to report. I checked the Common Milkweed in a meadow several hundred yards away from where she was flying. She was repeatedly flying over an open wetland marsh- so I suspect she sensed there was Swamp Milkweed nearby, but I never saw her land. Her legs were outstretched with shallow wing beats- so she had that look.

Raleigh, NC

Latitude: 35.8 Longitude: -78.6

Observed by: John
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