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Today I had a good chance to see what monarch butterfly egg laying looks like.\u00a0 Apparently it\u2019s pretty inconspicuous.\u00a0 I saw the first monarch flying around the yard today and since we\u2019ve had a bumper crop of milkweed it made a bee-line for the plants.\u00a0 What I observed was the butterfly scraping the back of its abdomen over the leaf.\u00a0 After just a few seconds it moved on to another plant and then another.\u00a0 Apparently it\u2019s a very casual activity and there\u2019s no long drawn out procedure.\u00a0 And I expected see many eggs but what I observed was just one or two on the leaves I observed.\u00a0 I\u2019ll make further observations and I hope to see more of this activity to determine if what I observed is representative of this activity in the life cycle of the monarch butterfly.<\/p>\n

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As an aside today I observed a fairly large swallowtail caterpillar feeding in the garden on Queen Anne\u2019s Lace.\u00a0 And the fact that we already have moved to the caterpillar stage with swallowtails matches up to the much earlier sighting of the swallowtail butterflies in the yard almost a month ago.<\/p>\n

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