Date: 06/29/2018

Number: 40

We have been seeing monarchs in our garden and finding a few eggs, but today there was a female laying eggs so frantically that she laid one on a leaf while I was holding its stem. I found as many as 3 and 5 eggs on bud clusters of a potted Asclepias curassavica on our patio. Between laying eggs, she nectared on tithonia and elderberry. We also have potted Gomphocarpus physocarpus, and she laid a lot of eggs on the tiny leaves there. Several Asclepias syriaca around the yard also had new eggs, but she often landed on them and left without laying an egg. Thirty or forty of the eggs went indoors for captive raising, but I didn't look very hard for the many others that I suspected she was laying.

Minneapolis, MN

Latitude: 44.9 Longitude: -93.3

Observed by: Mary
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