Date: 05/06/1998

Number: 1

First monarch sighting at Sweet Briar College CAMPUS, Amherst Co. Virginia:
Wednesday 6 May 1998, 11:30am Hot, sunny morning. Monarch flying slowly and low over a hayfield. Sex not determined. No milkweeds seen in field during a rapid, incomplete survey.

About 2-4PM on the campus today (sunny, humid, warm, in the old field west
of the science building, Linda and her students saw 3 adults flying between
2-4PM. One was a dull female landing on ? plants (not milkweeds, species
indetermined). Linda found and checked 13 freshly sprouted Asclepias
syriaca milkweeds, 2 to about 12 inches high; No eggs or larvae seen yet.

In addition, Lincoln Brower today (6 May 1998) checked our local field on Stage Coach Road (Amherst County, Virginia, about 2 miles east of the Sweet Briar College Campus) and saw no monarchs and did not yet find any emergent Asclepais syriaca. (However Linda Fink did see a few emerging milkweeds there last Saturday, May 2.)

Sweet Briar, VA

Latitude: 37.6 Longitude: -79.1

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