Date: 04/08/1999

Number: 1

The milkweed is up and some plants have good-sized heads although none have opened to blooms as yet. We have not had much rain and the milkweed seems a little sparse in some areas where I usually find it.

On Sat., April 3rd, I began looking for eggs and found more than 50. There were usually several to a plant, and were laid in every conceivable place - on the heads, on top of leaves, under leaves, and one was even on a clover leaf sticking up through the milkweed. It seems there was a frenzy of egg laying that day. That was six days ago and almost all of the eggs hatched today, Thursday, April 8. Since five days is the longest I have ever had an egg before it hatched, I am assuming that most of the eggs were laid the day I found them.

I spotted the first monarch of the season on March 19,1999.

Brownwood, TX

Latitude: 31.6 Longitude: -99

Observed by: Dawn
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