Date: 04/22/2017

Number: 1

This morning I spotted about a bakers dozen or so of new milkweed sprouts on the field side of rural grader ditch. This is the first milkweed I have seen this spring, since my senses don't seem to be attuned to discovering this plant nearly as well as are those of our favorite orange creatures. Newly planted corn is just sprouting in this field. It was in soybeans in 2016. The grader ditch has a somewhat steep embankment which rarely gets mowed. Not sure if the farmer or township road commissioner does the mowing. I counted 6 eggs, no multiples on any plant.

Courtesy of Monarch Watch

Mahomet, IL

Latitude: 40.2 Longitude: -88.4

Observed by: Paul
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