[Leps-l] Unpublicized Monarch Overwintering Sites

[Charles Covell]

The program last night on the PBS News Hour indicates the estimated hectare
size of the Mexico overwintering population is the smallest yet measured.
 Lincoln Brower's projection seems to be coming true: the migration
phenomenon seems to be declining steadily.  Check this info at PBS.com and
search in the PBS News hour for 24 Dec. piece.  Sadly, neither Lincoln nor
Chip Taylor were included in the coverage, which mainly featured folks at
Texas A&M.  No problem with that.  Photos of containers of Roundup were
included in the story.  Merry Christmas.  Cheers, Charlie


On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Roger Kuhlman <rkuhlman at hotmail.com> wrote:

> How is the overall migrating Monarch population doing this year? I think
> the Monarch season(breeding and migrating) in southeast Michigan
> (Washtenaw, Wayne, Lenawee, and Monroe counties) was the worst year I can
> remember since I began intensively surveying butterflies back in 1997.
>
> What do other people in the East and Midwest think?
>
> Roger Kuhlman
> Ann Arbor, Michigan
> 12/25/2013
>
> >
> > Subject: Re: [Leps-l] Unpublicized Monarch Overwintering Sites
>
> >
> > Secrete????? Not really. This small and only occasionally occupied
> > location has been known for a long time. Due to it's remoteness and
> > the fact that it is small and often not occupied, it is seldom
> > visited.
> > No one has claimed that the number of monarchs at this site are
> > anything but a small proportion of the total population.
> >
> > Gail Morris passed along the following write up on this location -
> > dating from 2002.
> >
> > http://www.tierramerica.net/2002/0120/iarticulo.shtml
> >
> > >Paul,
> > >
> > >What a tremendous service you have rendered to the Monarch by subtly
> > >revealing 'secret' overwintering sites.
> > >
> > >Pelham
> > >
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