<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Will the numbers be up or down? Last November Dr. <br class="">Chip Taylor predicted numbers would be down about <br class="">50% due to a severe drought and high temperatures <br class="">in the Dakotas last summer. 20 second video: <br class=""><a href="https://youtu.be/zSA877o_v0A" class="">https://youtu.be/zSA877o_v0A</a><br class=""><br class="">If Chip’s prediction is correct, the 15 year overwintering<br class="">population graph will look like this:<br class=""><a href="https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/931/eQST7W.jpg" class="">https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/931/eQST7W.jpg</a><br class=""><br class="">I hold the view that numbers will be higher based on a </div><div class="">strong - 20 butterflies per minute - migration I observed </div><div class="">and video recorded in south-central Minnesota on </div><div class="">August 29, 2021: <a href="https://youtu.be/Q1ugyulER6Q" class="">https://youtu.be/Q1ugyulER6Q</a></div><div class=""><br class="">Also based on these 2020 vs 2021 Journey North <br class="">"fall roost" reports that show more roosts in 2021 in the <br class="">Wisconsin/Michigan/ Illinois/Indiana/Ohio area, plus a <br class="">stronger late October/early Nov migration in the hill </div><div class="">country of Texas slightly west of San Antonio:<br class=""><a href="https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/9528/vk7v1J.jpg" class="">https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/9528/vk7v1J.jpg</a><br class=""><br class="">If my prediction is correct, the 15 year overwintering<br class="">Population graph will look like this:<br class=""><a href="https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/4813/p1u9ab.jpg" class="">https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/4813/p1u9ab.jpg</a><br class=""><br class="">We should know one way or the other sometime this month.<br class=""><br class="">Paul Cherubini<br class="">El Dorado, Calif.</div></body></html>