Date: 04/03/2001

Number: 1

I saw and caught my first Arkansas monarch of the year. She was laying eggs on some tropical milkweek that I had set out a week earlier.She is a little faded, but otherwise in good shape. She has a mass of 0.60 grams and a fore wing lenght of 5.4 cm.

This sighting is about 10 days later than the previous 5 years I've been monitoring the arrival in southeast Arkansas. Monday a warm front moved in from Texas and I thought that it might bring some visitors.

Monticello, AR

Latitude: 33.6 Longitude: -91.8

Observed by: Jim
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