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Today, we had a Monarch flying around our field and landing frequently on our milkweed for nectar from the flowers but nearly as often on a small milkweed plants. Upon examination there were eggs on the underleaves. So far we have gathered about ten eggs to raise caterpillars. We willl look for more later, The female invariably lays on small leaves of the milkweed so we search on small plants. I mow part of the milkweed so that it will sprout into young plants which are more attractive for egg laying. One surprise was that two of the eggs hatched soon after we brought them in. Usually, it takes a week or two for the eggs to hatch into larvae so there must have been another Monarch around that we did not observe. The Monarch presently in our field must have been fertilized elsewhere because we have not seen two at the same time. ////// === /////// Larry Bogan Brooklyn Corner, Nova Scotia <larry@bogan.ca>
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