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

Ernest Williams ewilliam at hamilton.edu
Fri Nov 21 15:31:04 EST 2025


Note that the scientists working with the CTT tags plan to submit a
scientific article with their current results, so they aren't yet releasing
all the details (based on my conversation with one of the principals). The
New York Times article gave a good summary with really a lot of details.
Not everything is open now; more will come.
Ernest

On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM Mike Quinn <entomike at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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