The female — loaded with a hundred or more fertilized eggs — flutters through the patches of wildflowers and lays her eggs one at a time on the undersides of young, tender milkweed leaves.
Mātītes, kuru ķermenī ir simts vai pat vairāk apaugļotu olu, lido cauri laukumiņiem, kur zied lauku puķes, un dēj savas olas pa vienai uz piensulas augu jauno, maigo lapu apakšpuses.