Date: 07/15/2018

Number: 40

Monarchs love to lay eggs on the young honeyvine (Cynanchum laeve) that grows as a weed in my large veggie/flower garden. Each week the honeyvine grows to about 6 inches tall with 4-5 pairs of opposite leaves along the stem.

I mow the grass/weeds (including honeyvine) that grows between the rows of the garden plants on a weekly basis. I had seen monarchs around the garden this week so I was concerned I would destroy some eggs.

So I picked all of the honeyvine plants from the rows I needed to mow. Of the 84 honeyvine plants, there were 40 monarch eggs. Usually there was one egg laid on one of the middle rows of leaves. I transferred the eggs (on their plants) to containers in the house to raise.

Centerville, OH

Latitude: 39.6 Longitude: -84.1

Observed by: Judy
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