After I spent some time at home, I came back to the Iowa State campus to continue with raising monarch butterflies and caterpillars in one of the campus buildings. Here it is, the middle of June. All the grad students and student workers have not found very many monarch eggs or larva out in the field. We have seen some adults, but very few eggs and larva. I don't know for sure, but the snowstorm that went through the overwintering ground in Mexico in late February or early March may of had a bigger impact then we originally thought.
We have had our fair share of headaches lately. Our equipment in the building has been having problems lately. As soon as we get one problem fixed, it seems that another one pops up.
