Friday, August 3, 2007

Tags came from Monarchwatch!

Good day! The tags we will be using to tag the monarchs before release have arrived! You can read all about them at www.monarchwatch.com ... this is a great source of info about monarchs as well! We will begin tagging all monarchs released, or just caught hanging around, this weekend.

A number more of the pupae emerged to monarchs today. I have paired off a number of the hatchlings from earlier in the week and contained them in the breeding boxes. Hopefully egg laying will begin shortly.

The black swallowtails have had a huge growth spirt! They are eating parsley plants down to the nub!

I discovered another group of small monarch larvae today in one of the breeding boxes... so there must have been some egg laying earlier than I expected on the last batch.

All for now...

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