Date: 05/05/2018

Number: 20

I was turkey hunting and sitting in a blind overlooking a 20-acre food plot with red flowering clover in full bloom. Two large patches of milkweed on different ends of the field full of eggs. I was using binoculars and the ones I could see clearly did look fresh.

Monarch count was over a two-day period, May 5 & 6.
Also on the six Hundred Acre Farm I did a lot of walking, lots of Open Fields and an old home site with an extremely large lilac bush in full bloom, full of assortment of butterflies; tigers, pipevine, spicebush, silvery checkerspot, monarch,s clearwing moths.

I will return on Thursday (May 10) and try to take some pictures.
I work with dr. Chris Barnhart in the Butterfly House in Springfield Missouri Botanical Gardens as a volunteer.

Found eggs on milkweed

The location was near Aldrich Missouri just 2 miles east of Aldrich Missouri, on Walnut Creek which feeds the sac River

Fair Play, MO

Latitude: 37.6 Longitude: -93.6

Observed by: Jeff
Contact Observer

The observer's e-mail address will not be disclosed.
Contact will be made through a web-based form.