Date: 05/19/2001

Number: 1

Yesterday (May 19th) I wrote:
I haven't seen any adult Monarchs yet this season but this morning I found 19 monarch eggs at Pt. Mouillee State Game Area (Rockwood, MI 20 miles S. of Detroit). All the eggs were found in one patch of Common Milkweed (a.syriaca) containing about 25 plants.
This morning I checked 3 other common milkweed patches at Pt.
Mouillee(Rockwood , MI 20 miles s. of Detroit), a couple of miles south of where I found 19 eggs yesterday. The first patch of 25 plants was eggless.
The other two patches of 30 plants each yielded 15 and 28 eggs respectively.
So I now have 62 eggs that should be hatching in the next couple of days.
I also spotted my first adult of the season this afternoon while driving through Southfield, MI (9 miles NW of downtown Detroit).

Mark Wloch
markwlo@aol.com

Rockwood, MI

Latitude: 42.1 Longitude: -83.2

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