[Leps-l] [leps-talk] Monarch Armageddon

[Roger Kuhlman]

Remember the Passenger Pigeon.  Once there were billions of them. Roger Kuhlman
 > From: monarch at saber.net
> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:56:37 -0800
> To: leps-l at mailman.yale.edu
> Subject: Re: [Leps-l] [leps-talk] Monarch Armageddon
> 
> On Feb 13, 2013, at 9:00 AM, Chuck Vaughn wrote:
> 
> > I remember Paul has documented that a small number of
> > west coast Monarchs overwinter in eucalyptus trees at
> > Sky West golf coarse in Hayward.
> 
> Yep and I've been gradually accumulating videos of monarchs
> overwintering in planted stands of eucalyptus or pine trees
> on golf courses, cemeteries and city parks in the ultra urbanized
> areas of California.  Examples:
> 
> San Leandro Marina Golf Course Nov. 15, 2011:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77NIWVT9fHA
> 
> Chuck Corica Golf Course Dec. 18, 2011:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdLm-Gr5A9E
> 
> New Park Mall, Newark, Calif. Dec. 25, 2011:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KyPnYopCnY
> 
> Albany Hill, Albany, Calif. Dec. 25, 2011:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdtARyqj9xc
> 
> Morro Bay Golf Course Feb. 5, 2012:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX70cjtX29k
> 
> A cemetery in San Luis Obispo Feb 4, 2012
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrEBTFAlEdw
> 
> > It seems to me that the Monarch migration, instead of being
> > a fragile phenomenon, must be a robust phenomenon or
> > else it wouldn't have survived for so long.
> 
> Yep, just look at what happened in Australia,
> New Zealand, Spain and Portugal in the late 1800's.
> Humans inadvertently (via the emerging steam ship
> industry) introduced milkweeds from places like South 
> Africa and these milkweeds flourished along roadsides 
> and on farmland.  Then at the same time humans inadvertently 
> introduced very small numbers of monarchs from North America. 
> Then almost overnight the monarch migration and overwintering
> phenomenon sprang up in multiple areas of those countries 
> and the butterflies overwinter in city parks, cemeteries, clumps
> of trees on farmland, etc. just as they do in California: 
> http://www.monarch.org.nz/monarch/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/photo1.jpg
> 
> Paul Cherubini
> El Dorado, Calif.
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