Date: 07/08/2018

Number: 1

On July 6th I reported finding three Monarch butterfly eggs on three common milkweed plants near Bellefonte, PA.

We collected them, brought them home, and placed them on a potted common milkweed plant, which we now have inside our house for their protection.

One of the three (designated “C03” for my records) emerged from its egg late today (July 8th).   This is the first Monarch caterpillar we have seen thus far this year.   We have yet to find any in the wild.

The included three-part photograph shows:   (a) the egg as we first found it on July 6th, (b) at about 6:30 PM today (July 8th) while the caterpillar was still munching on its egg case, and (c) about a half hour later, when it had set out on its own.   In the first two photographs the egg and caterpillar are still on the underside of the leaf on which we collected it.   In the third photograph, the caterpillar is on the top of a common milkweed leaf onto which it had transferred.

 

Bellefonte, PA

Latitude: 40.9 Longitude: -77.8

Observed by: R. Timothy
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