Date: 05/26/2016

Number: 1

I walked out into the field behind the USDA Service Center to see if any milkweed had popped up through the grass and saw a Monarch (first of the year)take off. I ran across the field hoping it would land so I could get the sex. When it finally landed, I noticed that it did so on a Common Milkweed plant. It stayed there a very long time. When it finally opened its wings I could see that it was a female - when it left I found two eggs on the plant and discovered another egg on a milkweed where I first saw it. I didn't get a picture of the adult, but did photograph all three eggs.

Mount Pleasant, MI

Latitude: 43.6 Longitude: -84.7

Observed by: Michael
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