Date: 04/12/2017

Number: 1

Followed an orange butterfly around the Master Gardeners Demo garden on Brown Rd.for several minutes hoping it would land for ID. It finally landed on the sprouting milkweed. The female butterfly abdomen came forward to lay eggs on those tiny sprouts. The shoots are only about 4 inches tall. The leaves are still folded upwards along the stem. Earliest I have ever seen a Monarch.

Saint Peters, MO

Latitude: 38.8 Longitude: -90.6

Observed by: Maureen
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