Date: 06/01/2017

Number: 16

Mid April I spotted a Female Monarch in my milkweed bed on a Sunday afternoon. Over the next few days she laid 20-25 eggs. I started missing eggs so I bought 9 inside to a pop-up cage and left the others outside to grow on their own. The ate from asclepias tuberosa, Gomphocarpus fruticosus, and asclepias incarnata. The week of May 15th the 9 captive-reared hatched to 5 females and 4 males being released. The others outside fell in numbers to only 6 surviving to actually hatch and fly. No count on sexes.

Tyrone, GA

Latitude: 33.5 Longitude: -84.6

Observed by: Teresa
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