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.

 
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