July 19, 2023 – Growing in Gardner

Another round of Monarch Guardianship

Four yogurt containers, each had a single milkweed leaf in it. All the leaves have one monarch egg, save the one on the bottom of the image that has two eggs on the underside of the leaf. — There likely could have been more, but with the wildfire particulate in the air and knowing it’s early in the season here I stopped after finding the five eggs.

Since I had seen my first Monarch of the year earlier in the week, I knew at some point I should be looking for eggs. Continue reading “Another round of Monarch Guardianship” →

Status• Posted on July 19, 2023July 20, 2023 by Lily