Date: 05/09/2001

Number: 1

Today the first female monarch of the new generation hatched
here at the George Observatory. She is drying her wings, hanging
on a penta flower. I inspected the milkweed today, and all plants have eggs on them, many leaves have a single egg, but each plants has a number of eggs. Incidentally, we have had a bumper crop of beautiful Tiger swallowtails this spring. Both the male yellow and black and the female black form. They are constantly feeding on one plant, Duranta Repens.

Brazos Bend State Park, TX

Latitude: 29.7 Longitude: -95.6

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