Date: 06/06/2016

Number: 2

I was scheduled to do a monarch presentation to a local 4-H club on Monday, June 6, 2016. I felt it was critical to take a monarch egg and show the kids. But I was having no luck finding any eggs on the milkweed around town. I'd resigned myself to the fact that a photo would have to suffice. Just a few hours before the meeting, I walked my dog in an area near Chippewa Valley Technical College. Along a fence, among lots of tall grass and weeds, I found a single, healthy Common Milkweed plant that housed eight eggs! I pulled the whole plant, snipped the bottom, and placed it into a vase with water. By the time the meeting started, two eggs had hatched at my home on the cut plant! Not only was I able to show what an egg looked like, the kids got to meet two newborn larva! Talk about an absolute treasure! Needless to say, it was an exciting evening.

Note: Since Monday, I've continued to search for eggs and caterpillars and have found none.

Eau Claire, WI

Latitude: 44.8 Longitude: -91.5

Observed by: Ellen
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