Fwd: Re: monarch freeze

[Richard Worth]

Hey group,
Just thought I'd pass this along.  A note from Andy Brower to a colleague.
Looks like the whole pesticide thing is now but an urban legend.
Rich

>
>>X-Sender: browera at bcc.orst.edu
>>Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:29:50 -0800
>>To: Christine Armer <armerc at bcc.orst.edu>
>>From: Andy Brower <browera at bcc.orst.edu>
>>Subject: Re: monarch freeze
>>Cc: ent-all at ava.bcc.orst.edu
>>
>>Hi Christine (and ent-all),
>>
>>Yes, don't believe the hype, as they say.  Myron Schenk also pointed out an
>>article like this to me last week.  I talked to my dad on Saturday, and he
>>said that the pesticide thing was a false alarm, and that indeed, most of
>>the millions of "dead" monarchs were only knocked off the trees, and that
>>when the sun warmed them up, they resuscitated and flew back to theior
>>roosts.  Sorry for the false alarm.
>>
>>Andy
>>
>>At 02:28 PM 3/25/01 -0800, you wrote:
>>  >Howdy!  THought this was an interesting bit of news- the monarchs may not
>>  >have been sprayed with pesticides after all- though I'm sure that logging
>>  >nearby didn't help protect against the freeze at all- a larger buffer zone
>>  >around the butterfly trees would have helped keep them warmer, if that
>>  >indeed was the problem-
>>  >Teenie
>>  >
>>  >BUTTER FLY-CICLES
>>  >The deaths of millions of monarch butterflies this month in Mexico
>>  >may have been caused by a winter freeze, not pesticide-spraying by
>>  >loggers, as one environmental group alleged last week.  Mexico's
>>  >environmental agency said on Monday that it had tested 300 butterfly
>>  >corpses and found no traces of toxic substances from pesticides,
>>  >leading it to conclude that cold temperatures caused the die-off.
>>  >The World Wildlife Fund, which has been helping preserve the
>>  >monarchs' winter habitat in Mexico, also said the freeze was the more
>>  >likely cause of the deaths.
>>  >
>>  >straight to the source:  MSNBC.com, 13 Mar 2001
>>  ><http://www.msnbc.com/news/540501.asp>
>>  >

Richard A. Worth
Oregon Department of Agriculture
Plant Division
rworth at oda.state.or.us
(503) 986-6461

 
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