Record Low Monarch population expected in Mexico this winter.

[Kenelm Philip]

> I suspect ants for much egg predation, but there are a host of suspects.

	One suspect would be the little red mites that one often sees on
plants. Many years ago I was photographing a _Papilio machaon_ egg through
a microscope--and as I was taking the slides a red mite strolled up, and
began sucking out the contents of the egg. The mite was only a little bit
larger than the egg, so this was a substantial meal! I still have the
slide...

							Ken Philip





 
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