Thanks Leslie: Sounds like your Huntington Beach, Ca. garden is thriving. I am forwarding your news to interested and experienced butterfly people, as I am...
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The late spring monarch breeding population is much lower this year than I've ever seen it before. In recent weeks I've checked dozens of milkweed patches in...
Hi, Paul Cherubini; Glad to hear from you even tho the news is so GRIM. And your pictures don't LIE about the efficasy of ROUNDUP and other "Killers"and that...
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Jun 17, 2008 10:08 pm
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... Helen, there are small numbers of monarchs breeding year round on the central and southern California coast whereever there are substantial patches of...
Hi, Dolores: I"m forwarding this news from a friend of mine, Be sure to check out the 2 enclosed snapshots, Anyhow, violations of Monarch's RIGHTS and their...
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Jun 18, 2008 4:50 pm
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am very busy, haven't peeked at e-mail in while, but wanted you to know that milkweed is abundant (an understatement) in Yosemite Valley with 20+ monarchs ...
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Jun 25, 2008 8:14 pm
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... Thanks for the encouraging news Mia. I also recently found monarchs are doing reasonably well in the southern Sierra Nevada. On June 20-22 I toured the...
Greetings, Spent most of last week on the road in search of monarchs. Started in Flagstaff area. Two stops in the vast sunflower fields northeast of...
... Chris, all the monarchs now in Arizona should be summer reproductive monarchs, not fall migrants in reproductive diapause. Reproductive monarchs are less...
another report from similar field: male monarchs cruising Lone Pine Creek, 10+ eggs on milkweed August 14 many monarchs continue to be observed in Yosemite...
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Aug 26, 2008 5:53 pm
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Of the 32 tagged in the sunflower fields, 26 were male. Got three females hopping from milkweed to milkweed (Asclepias subverticillata) and captured ten on...
Hi: All: \\ Just recovering from 7 weeks of 24/7 of sleeping long hours, only to wake up to eat or drink and then back to sleep some more from July 7 to...
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Sep 2, 2008 3:44 pm
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Hi, All: This is my DYNAMITE "Bud", Leslie Gilson who is rehabbing a city park(Norma Gibbs Park) in Huntington Beach, California for Monarchs, and IT"S...
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Sep 7, 2008 4:37 pm
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BINGO!!! 9 /7/08 Our FIRST Western Message!!11 She is an elementary school teacher in San Miguel, California Her native plant Monarch garden is on the...
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Sep 7, 2008 9:43 pm
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Butterfly Paper Western Monarch news from Leslie Gilson in Huntington Beach, California. She's HOT!!! Helen Johnson MONARCH ALERT (Monterey County) ...
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Sep 7, 2008 9:43 pm
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Hi, Jan: Keep the news coming from Coyote Hills Regional Park (Bay Area - next to Dunbarten San Mateo Bridge) What a loss for the park and public when you...
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Sep 7, 2008 9:43 pm
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Butterfly Paper ... re More news about the proposed butterfly house for So. California, thanks to Leslie Gilson. Helen Johnson - MONARCH ALERT...
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Sep 8, 2008 3:11 pm
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Hi, Karen Oberhauser: I was so happy to hear from you, and I still have a copy of your original Teacher Education proposal from several years ago- right after...
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Sep 11, 2008 4:08 pm
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... From: Karen Oberhauser To: hjohnson1952 Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 1:47 PM Subject: Re: Fw: Fw: Gibbs park - More Western ness Dear Helen, Thank...
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Sep 12, 2008 3:13 pm
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Hi, Monika: So glad to hear from you. Didn't know there were any taggers in Texas besides a school teacher, Mrs, Kennedy, from Texas, who attended our Yr, ...
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Sep 13, 2008 7:15 pm
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Proudly presenting Leslie Gilson"s rehabbed Norma Gibbs Park in Huntington Beach, California. She"s my "Poster Lady"of how money and "elbow grease"and FOCUS...
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Sep 13, 2008 7:15 pm
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I live in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains about 30 miles east of Sacramento, Calif. I keep about 75 butterfly bushes in my yard which are great...
... Helen, I think the most spectacular sights in Texas are not in the border towns, but in the west-central Texas cotton growing region slightly east of the...
Hi, Leslie, That is so sad, but I forwarded your/her letter to everyone I know , and hopefully someone can be helpful. Tell Karolyn I'm some of my contacts can...
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Sep 23, 2008 5:58 pm
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I hope that Jim Willoughby was one of the 917 Museum visitors who attended the augmented fabulous photo exhibit of insects with LIVE Insect exhibitions as...
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Sep 23, 2008 5:58 pm
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BlankHi, Sharon: Are you a photographer, or WHAT!! I guess I should have ALL of my photos taken behind plastic!!! That was really a fabulous shot taken at our...
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Sep 23, 2008 5:58 pm
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Hi, all:Sending my tent picture again Helen ... From: Sharon Blaziek To: hjohnson1952 Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 7:22 AM Subject: I LOST my picture!!! ...
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Sep 23, 2008 5:59 pm
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Here's a hopeful sign there are some fall migrants out there and so the overwintering populations are probably not going to be wildly lower than last year...
Thanx, Paul Cherubini; For the detailed instructions of how to get to San Angelo, Texas from Pacific Grove, California. That is really #1 for my personal...
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Sep 25, 2008 1:51 am
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Leslie, you Wonder Woman!!! Wanted to share your success with other Western Monarch folks. I'm still waiting here in Pacific Grove for our first Monarch...