[Leps-l] NYT: tracking monarchs in real time!!

Mike Quinn entomike at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 13:36:10 EST 2025


The routes these three eastern monarchs take are *most* remarkable and
unexpected, at least to me.

Paul, I briefly poked around on their app, but can't seem to find the
motherload of migratory tracks, please advise if you're able to.

Thanks, Mike

[image: NYT migration routes 2025-11-21 .jpg]


On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM Paul Cherubini <monarch at saber.net> wrote:

> The tracking is showing eastern USA fall migrant monarchs are NOT flying
> solely to small, pinpoint like areas of Mexico as has been previously
> widely
> believed, but are spread out over a fairly wide area as is the case with
> the
> overwintering monarchs along the California coast:
>
> [image: broad.jpg]
>
> On Nov 19, 2025, at 4:52 PM, Mike Quinn <entomike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Nov. 17, 2025
>
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/science/monarch-butterfly-migration-tracking-sensor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2k8.rudt.Q2DM79qkiMGd&smid=nytcore-ios-share
>
> gift article
>
>
>
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