Date: 10/01/2016

Number: 5

Monarch Waystation #299 report: During a Butterfly event today, I noticed a female monarch laying eggs on a patch of common milkweed in the Conservation Garden. She was faded and desperate enough to knock a 5th instar monarch caterpillar off its petiole perch to lay an egg on the smallest square millimeter patch of leaf left on that plant! The caterpillar tried to hang on but dropped off to the ground and rolled up. I saw her lay at least 5 eggs in the patch before she flew off to make the rounds of the milkweeds on the grounds.

Newport News, VA

Latitude: 37.1 Longitude: -76.5

Observed by: Judy
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