Date: 04/12/1999

Number: 1

Today, 4-12-99, I saw 1 or possibly 2 ragged and very faded Monarch(s)in the yard about 2 miles south of the ag field where the first Monarch was sighted yesterday. Today the first individual (female) was nectoring on
henbit and the other (or a second individual also faded) was flying
close to
the ground about half an hour later. It might have been a second one,

but I
cannot say for certain.

A hike around the hayfield led me to a newly emerged stand of dogbane (Apocynum, I believe) on the slope that faces southwest. There are several hundred tender plants with leaves still folded tightly against the stem. I found one Monarch egg.

Herod, IL

Latitude: 37.5 Longitude: -88.5

Observed by: Judy
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