Hi all. I live in the southern Sierra Nevada and in early October went for a drive to the Lone Pine, CA area, and encountered thousands of monarch butterflies....
Dear Mr. or Mrs. "Found me". Thanx for your very helpful information about where some of our ?Western Migration Coastal -bound Monarchs were sighted or were...
hjohnson1952
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Nov 1, 2008 11:38 pm
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... Do you have any pictures? The reason I ask is because it is unlikely those butterflies were monarchs. While monarchs were common in and around the ...
Ms. Johnson, Thanks for the reply. I assume, since these butterflies were in California, they were heading west, but of course, only the butterflies know for...
No pictures, my camera chose that day to die. I am not a butterfly expert, but they certainly looked like monarchs to me. Given that monarchs migrate, I...
HI, ALL: Sharing Peggy Metzger's "A MONARCH WITH A MISSION" picture of her FIRST Monarch "birth" of season 2008 in her Monarch garden that she and her...
hjohnson1952
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Nov 3, 2008 6:34 pm
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Dear abcdefyoufoundme, I'm just an UNCREDENTIALED "Citizen Scientist", but I so glad you contacted our Western News letter,and that Paul Cherubini replied, I...
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Nov 3, 2008 7:14 pm
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It's also common for people to confuse Monarchs with California tortoiseshell butterflies. Example: In early August there were spectacular "monarch migration"...
Hi, Leslie: "Monarch Madness" HAS become an annual event for at least the past 3 years at the Pacific Grove Natural History Museum, (and MYSELF made it more...
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Nov 3, 2008 11:36 pm
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Thanx, Don I can guess who the Monarch "Rock Throwers" were. And, my own favorite example would be that "Biblical Character" who was very much unappreciated...
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Nov 3, 2008 11:37 pm
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Greetings,  Late season Monarch activity is greatly decreased in Arizona this year compared to the last couple years.  On October 18 we were at the...
Hi everyone, Tama & I conducted our first official Monterey County monarch count of the season this morning, and I'm happy to report that the numbers are...
Please keep an eye out for my blue tags! THX  chris FYI - I will be out of the office Nov 9 - 21. Email our Instructional Specialist Lacey Pacheco...
Whatever the type of butterfly I saw, apparently massive numbers of additional monarch looking butterflies were seen in the Tuolomne Lodge area by a woman who...
What I saw looked like monarch butterflies. NOT Calif Tortoiseshells and NOT Painted Ladies. Name some butterflies that have the exact same markings and...
The City of Goleta is continuing it's butterfly docent program for the Ellwood Main Monarch Grove for a second year. We are hosting a docent training event on...
Anne Wells
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Nov 8, 2008 7:50 pm
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... The reason for the doubt about the identity of the butterflies you saw near Lone Pine, Calif. http://tinyurl.com/5okwqo is because out of the dozens of...
Hello everyone, Week two of counting in Monterey County went very well. We started off the week with our training workshop, which unfortunately had reduced...
... Jessica, was this tagged monarch wild caught or one of the commercially reared monarchs Helen Johnson purchased and (presumably) donated to the PG Museum...
Hi Paul, This was a captive-raised monarch that Helen ordered from Swallowtail Farms. We tagged and released 43 monarchs right outside the Pacific Grove ...
HI, Jacqui: I guess you are home in Russell, New Zealand,and it's tomorrow!!! That was indeed a fabulous trip, Getting home must have been a relief for you...
hjohnson1952
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Nov 15, 2008 8:01 pm
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Hi everyone, Just want to fill you in on this week's monarch events. On Friday morning a team from ABC 7 in SF came down to film the monarchs, get some...
Hi everyone, Here's a quick e-mail to report on our first tagging session. On Saturday about 14 taggers showed up at the Sanctuary, ready to go. It was a...
... Yes, 200 cluster sites, but those are mostly autumnal sites (occupied only in the autumn). The number of overwintering sites is far less (if one defines an...
Hi everyone, Just a quick e-mail to let you know the latest numbers at the PG Monarch Sanctuary. First, I need to give a huge thank you to our volunteer...
During the past three months Joe Billings of Vail, Arizona tagged nearly 1,000 wild monarchs in Arizona! No one else in the entire history of western monarch...
Yes, Joe's efforts have proven very valuable over the last few years. Last year he got over 500 and one of those was recovered at El Rosario, courtesy of...
Hi Paul Here in NZ we get tags made by the same company that makes them for MonarchWatch, and so our tags look very similar to theirs - although of course they...
Hi Jacqui, Monarch Alert also uses tags from the same company as Monarch Watch (small white circular tags). I don't know of anyone still using the leading...
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