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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>How is the overall migrating Monarch population doing this year? I think the Monarch season(breeding and migrating) in southeast Michigan (Washtenaw, Wayne, Lenawee, and Monroe counties) was the worst year I can remember since I began intensively surveying butterflies back in 1997.<BR> <BR>What do other people in the East and Midwest think?<BR> <BR>Roger Kuhlman<br>Ann Arbor, Michigan<BR>12/25/2013 <BR> <BR><div>><br>> Subject: Re: [Leps-l] Unpublicized Monarch Overwintering Sites<br>> <br>> Secrete????? Not really. This small and only occasionally occupied <br>> location has been known for a long time. Due to it's remoteness and <br>> the fact that it is small and often not occupied, it is seldom <br>> visited.<br>> No one has claimed that the number of monarchs at this site are <br>> anything but a small proportion of the total population.<br>> <br>> Gail Morris passed along the following write up on this location - <br>> dating from 2002.<br>> <br>> http://www.tierramerica.net/2002/0120/iarticulo.shtml<br>> <br>> >Paul,<br>> ><br>> >What a tremendous service you have rendered to the Monarch by subtly <br>> >revealing 'secret' overwintering sites.<br>> ><br>> >Pelham<br>> ><br>> >_______________________________________________<br>> >Leps-l mailing list<br>> >Leps-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>> >http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/leps-l<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Leps-l mailing list<br>> Leps-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>> http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/leps-l<br></div> </div></body>
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