Date: 03/14/2000

Number: 1

Monarchs are moving through Baton Rouge. I saw my first one on 3/3/00. The next day there were 2 or 3 more. This is fairly early, 10-14 days early, in fact. On the 14th saw first egg laying. Our milkweeds Green milkweed (A. viridis) are blooming and ready for them. We'll keep monarchs up until early May. Once these young emerge as adults they leave. It's going to be early this year, 4-5 weeks so by sometime in April. How do you know these are migrants and not from New Orleans? I couldn't believe so worn, so not one that had stayed around winter. The bottom line is that we just don't know. But they just look so tattered, unlike the ones I'll see in mid-winter down in New Orleans.

Baton Rouge, LA

Latitude: 30.4 Longitude: -91.2

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