Monarch migration

[Grkovich, Alex]

I have seen quite a good number of them this year in eastern Massachusetts;
I also found an overwintering colony at Havasu Springs, Arizona, 15 miles
south of Lake Havasu City along the Colorado River. While most are spending
the winter in Mexico, not all are.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Paul Cherubini [SMTP:cherubini at mindspring.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, August 21, 2001 2:00 PM
> To:	leps-l at lists.yale.edu
> Subject:	Re: Monarch migration
> 
> Robert Kriegel wrote:
> 
> > I spent most of last week in Michigan's Upper Peninsula sampling. 
> > On Friday (8/17) I observed 50-100 fresh Danaus pleixppus 
> > (Monarch) adults at an old field in Mackinac County. 
> 
> Yes, numerous reports on the dplex-list indicate this is a 
> very high population year for the monarch butterfly in the
> upper Midwest and Great Lakes region.  
> 
> For example, the following report from northeast Iowa came
> in today from an experienced and excited observer. Ironically,
> northeast Iowa has a huge acreage of Bt corn and Roundup
> Ready Soybeans!
> 
> "If the migration follows the clustering by one week 
> as it did last year, it is time to get ready for a major migration 
> as everyone I have talked to here says the groups they are seeing 
> are much larger that in the past years.  We thought that getting 
> 1000 tags this year was a stretch, but as it turns out, we should 
> be able to get the last one on tonight!   We've never seen monarchs 
> like this!"
> 
>  Jim Langhus
>  Monona, IA  52159
> (Northeast Iowa)
> 
> Despite the high monarch population, we can be almost certain 
> that doom and gloom "monarchs are facing dire threats" 
> type articles will soon appear in major newspapers across North 
> America.  It's been a Sept//Oct tradition since about 1988 when
> Dr. Lincoln Brower first began predicting the monarch migration 
> could collapse by the year 2000.
> 
> Paul Cherubini, Placerville, Calif.
> 
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