Date: 05/04/2001

Number: 1

I saw the first "New Generation" monarch I've seen so far this year On Friday May 4, in the Kisatchie National Forest, Natchtoches Parish, Louisiana. The location is about 20 miles south of the city of Natchitoches, LA. The butterfly was a female and very, very fresh with bright colors. It was flying slowly along a Forest Service road stopping
occasionally on wild flowers.

The timing is right for this butterfly to be a new generation adult, the results of ovipostion from the Mexican remigrants that I reported moving through this part Louisiana almost exactly a month ago. It also is consistant with research results I reported in "Spring Migration and Ovipostion of the Monarch Buttefly in Louisiana" in Biology and Conservation of the Monarch Butterfly. 1993. Malcolm & Zalucki Eds. Science Series, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, No 38.

The area where I saw the buttefly has several species of milkweed including A. longifolia, A. amplexicaulis. A. obovata,

Kisatchie, LA

Latitude: 31.3 Longitude: -93.1

Observed by: Thomas
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