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Hi all, We have had as many as three, maybe four Monarch butterflies in our field early last week. Over the last several weeks, we have been casually collecting small Common Milkweed plants with eggs and small larvae on them. At the moment we have 16 larvae munching away on leaves in the house and a few to yet emerge from eggs. There are already three pupae hanging in screened in boxes going through their transformations plus one that escaped and is hanging from the top of one of our window frames. Last week we had our field of milkweed mowed by our neighbor who is very wary of letting this 'noxious weed' escape onto his farmland. The milkweed had flowered and was setting seedpods and had to be cut to prevent wide-spread dispersal of the seed. We still see at least one Monarch flying around visiting flowers and there is still plenty of milkweed growing near our buildings for them to lay on. There is also milkweed in the ditch on Brooklyn Street and in nearby agriculatural fields so ours is not the only source of milkweed in the area. We just received our tags from Monarch Watch and will be tagging up to 25 butterflies this year. Included was a newsletter describing the outlook for population this year. It says " We can expect a low year for monarchs...The migration should be particularly low in the New England area...." More information is available at http://monarchwatch.org. Cheers, Larry Bogan Cambridge Station, NS
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