Date: 06/22/2018

Number: 10

I have multiple milkweed plants and I do egg capture and live release. Today I released 10, 8 female 2 males. I do this bc tach fly is rampant here and so are wasp kills. So far to date since May, released over 200 active adult monarchs. Expecting 500 releases this season. I’m a monarch machine! Sporasoic diseases are also bad in SoCal bc if tainted milkweed from nurseries and pesticides. People here need to be educated that it’s not enough to just plant the milkweed, we need to make sure it’s clean for them. Found one live out of towner with deceased ozo monarch attached to it (almost like glue☹️) it could still fly and I cut the dead one off of it (picture) male!! He is hanging around my yard harassing poor newly hatched females (he can’t mate bc of a blocked sex organ from the deceased attached bf) but he still tries to...you know...do it! It’s a miracle he’s still alive but he is sexually assaulting the new girls lol. Trying hard here in oc to help monarchs.

Huntington Beach, CA

Latitude: 33.7 Longitude: -118

Observed by: Rachel
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