Date: 05/05/2000

Number: 1

(Note: JN Staff placed a copy of this monarch "egg" report here, so that Rochester, MN will appear on the migration map. The rationale is that, where there are monarch eggs, there are monarchs! Our mapping software requires a report in the "monarch adult" section for Rochester to appear on the map.)

My seventh grade students and I have been watching the milkweed sprout up around Willow Creek Middle School. It is a brick building that is earth-bermed on all sides. On April 25th we noticed several shoots of common milkweed that were 8 to 10 cm tall; they were on top of the berm on the south side of the building. At that time, we looked for eggs but didn't find any.

On Saturday(5/6), in my own backyard (S.W. Rochester), I found two monarch eggs on one plant that was 10 cm tall. The eggs hatched by 6:00 AM on Monday (5/8). Additionally, this morning (5/8), I found two more eggs on one 30 cm tall plant that was growing on the S.W. berm of W.C.M.S. All of my students and I have

Rochester, MN

Latitude: 44.1 Longitude: -92.5

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