The article Paul warned us about (Matanzas en Michoacan)

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

Tomorrows NY Times covers the preliminary info,

Storm in Mexico Devastates Monarch Butterfly Colonies

By CAROL KAESUK YOON

After a severe winter storm in mid-January, in the mountains of central 
Mexico, dead monarch butterflies lay in piles on the ground, in some places 
more than a foot high. Between 220 and 270 million frozen butterflies had 
rained down from roosts where they normally festooned towering trees, 
researchers estimated...

see the rest at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/12/science/12BUTT.html?ex=1014488951&ei=1&en=d3

8af57ef1f30055

Saddened in Monterrey, Mexico
Doug Dawn

 
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