Milkweed Plant Monarch Butterfly Eggs. The trick is to look on the underside of the leaf but you may sometimes find eggs on the stems or flower buds as well. One female monarch can lay up to 700 eggs.
Unfortunately it is treated as a weed and rooted out. The winner is the asclepias incarnata common name. Fortunately milkweed grows throughout the united states.
The larva caterpillar head can be often seen at the end of the egg stage 3 to 8 days at the top of the egg.
The best place to look for monarch eggs is on milkweed because it is the only plant that adult monarchs lay their eggs on. So how do you get rid. Common milkweed plants grow to about 2 to 4 feet in height with a thin vertical growth habit. Common milkweed asclepias syriaca is a native herbaceous perennial whose main virtue is its appeal to butterflies especially the monarch which deposits its eggs on the milkweed when the caterpillars hatch they feed on the leaves of milkweed.