Date: 05/27/2019

Number: 2

I found nearly a dozen monarch eggs in our milkweed patch last Thursday (5/23) and brought them inside to incubate and hatch (and to feed and go through metamorphosis) in a safer, warmer environment.

I raised a couple of monarchs late last summer from larva, but I wanted to try to increase their survival rate.

So far, so good!

Two of the eggs that I brought in on 7/23/2019 hatched yesterday, and more of the eggs have developed the black heads that they get just before they hatch. Hoping for more hatchlings by tomorrow morning! They were about 1/16" long when they first hatched, and this morning they were already both over 1/8". Tremendous growth spurt. I'll admit that I'm checking them compulsively every few hours.

Town of Southbury, CT

Latitude: 41.5 Longitude: -73.2

Observed by: J. W.
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