Milkweed Visitor

Today I watched a monarch deposit her eggs on our milkweed plants. I heard last year was an especially low year for monarch counts. We didn't have any eggs at all, so we were excited to see this one visiting our flowers! After she left, Danielle and I went outside and counted at least 10 eggs between the 3 plants that were the easiest to reach. We didn't want to disturb the other plants, but I know there are more eggs than that. Hopefully a good majority will survive the mosquito fogging and other elements and be well on their way to becoming big fat caterpillars by the time we get home from vacation.