This Monarch will go south.
Lots of Monarchs are ovipositing now.
We should have a decent fall migration.
-BRyan

At 8/5/2005, C and R STEWART wrote:
>On one of my block survey trips July 29 I observed a female monarch on a 
>milkweed.  This was in a hay field that had been cut and the milkweed was 
>only about 8" high with one other about 3' away.   Curiousity prompted me 
>to check the plant.  Lo! an egg - I suspect, freshly laid!   I brought it 
>home on the leaf.  It has 'hatched!"  Now to observe 'the rest of the story.'
>
>My question - will the emerging monarch be a migrator or will there be 
>another generation?
>
>Ruth
>
>
>Charlie & Ruth Stewart
>E. Dorset, Vermont
>U.S.A.

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