First Monarch eggs of the year!
I found the first set of Monarch eggs in my garden this year today. They had to be laid sometime later this afternoon, because earlier I checked and didn’t see any yet.
I’ve now had three species of butterflies lay eggs this year already. Some Black Swallowtails a while back, duskywings on Sunday and now today, Monarchs.
The eggs are on a few different species of milkweed - swamp, common, purple, whorled and one other one that I need to look up which milkweed it is again. I forgot to check the butterfly weed (A. tuberosa) - just realized that, I’ll check later.
And I haven’t forgotten to get some pictures on here, but just haven’t had time yet!
– Update - I checked - yes, eggs were laid on the Butterfly Weed (A. tuberosa) also! And later I saw a Tiger Swallowtail flying around the garden, first I’ve seen in our yard this year.
Met a large owl