By Diane St. John SEPT-OCT 2018 – The summer of 2018 has turned out to be a very good year for monarch butterflies in our state. The milkweed has had a great growing year and the monarchs arrived earlier than normal. I found my first eggs right after we had the damaging storms in May and am wondering if they were carried here by wind rather than their normal northern migration. At Natureworks in Northford I saw monarch eggs on our display garden milkweed in May, a pleasant shock as I had not seen an actual butterfly and would not see one for several more weeks I have talked with…