killing butterflies for fun???
Paul Cherubini
monarch at saber.net
Fri May 10 02:51:39 EDT 2002
Bob Parcelles,Jr. wrote:
> Nice to see you back from bashing PhD s Paul.
I just let everyone know when they exaggerate monarch population
setbacks or under report monarch population recoveries in a
predictably dramatic fashion that keeps us worried.
Example: in March 2001 monarch horror stories like this one
http://www.saber.net/~monarch/kurt4.JPG of devastating
monarch mortality in Mexico circulated through the world
press.
Yet just two months later, in May 2001, a "truly exceptional"
monarch migration was observed in the upper midwestern states
according to Dr. Chip Taylor:
"Last year the number of monarchs that moved through
eastern KS from about the 20th of May to the 7th of June
[2001] was truly exceptional".
Now Bob was the news of this incredible monarch population
recovery - in just a matter of weeks - ever reported anywhere in
the press last spring or even on any of the butterfly list serves?
No.
In fact, Dr. Taylor wrote his comment above only yesturday
on dplex-list - one year after the fact.
So it follows that if there has been another big monarch population
recovery this spring you and I will not hear about it in the press,
but we may eventually hear about it on a list serve - sometime next
year!
Paul Cherubini
Placerville, Calif.
------------------------------------------------------------
For subscription and related information about LEPS-L visit:
http://www.peabody.yale.edu/other/lepsl
More information about the Leps-l
mailing list