monarchs overwintering in Tucson

chris kline kline_at_pine at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 1 08:01:04 EST 2012


There are occasional reports of overwintering monarchs in the Tucson area, but to my understanding it is not an annual thing.  Gail Morris (gail-marie at cox.net) or Joe Billings (sw.dplex157 at yahoo.com) would know better.  I have found monarch cats on Asclepias linaria in the Catalinas north of Tucson in late summer.  One year I searched and searched for them on Asclepias asperula in spring and early summer and found none.
 
chris

 

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--- On Tue, 1/31/12, Roger Kuhlman <rkuhlman at hotmail.com> wrote:


From: Roger Kuhlman <rkuhlman at hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: monarchs overwintering in Tucson
To: "Leps List" <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 10:26 PM






Does anyone know how unusual it is to find Monarchs in the late Fall Months or the early Spring Months in Tucson? Do Monarchs breed in the summer nearby Tucson in the high country of Mount Lemon and other surrounding mountain ranges?
 
Roger Kuhlman
 




From: jim at gpnc.org
To: dplex-l at listproc.cc.ku.edu; LEPS-L at lists.yale.edu
Subject: monarchs overwintering in Tucson
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:47:34 -0600



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I have a report of some monarchs overwintering in Tucson.  Is anyone on the list seeing them also?  Can this be expected every year in Tucson or is this an unusually mild winter?
 
Jim Mason, Naturalist
Jim at gpnc.org
Great Plains Nature Center
6232 E. 29th Street North
Wichita, KS 67220-2200
316-683-5499 x103 - voice
316-688-9555 - fax
www.gpnc.org
 
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