Hi All, My wife and I want to go to Pacific Grove to photograph the monarchs that winter there. We only want to go, if there are still alot of them about. We...
Hi, Jacqui: I became SERIOUS when you said there wasn't any strenuous walking at your convention!!! And are your "caves" the ones with the glow worms, or is...
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Feb 3, 2009 12:38 am
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Western Monarch Day is almost here! What? You haven't heard about this? In 2004, a California Senate Bill was passed legislating that each February 5th would...
... From: Donald Davis To: paul cherubini ; Phil Bailey ; cassie carter ; paul finnegan ; Cynthia J brock ; walter sakai ; Leslie Gilson ; marge jameson ;...
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The Santa Barbara News Press (Sunday, Feb 1) features some beautiful photographs of the overwintering Monarchs at the Coronado Butterfly Preserve near Goleta. ...
Hi Rob, That is perfect timing! There are still lots of monarchs there, but they are becoming much more active. If you want to see them at their most active,...
NIBBLE!!!!! With a proboscis?????? Jacqui Knight picked up on this in New Zealand!!! Helen Johnson ... From: Jacqui Knight To:...
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Feb 3, 2009 3:00 am
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Good ! Come on by. We have 26,000 now although some are mating early and leaving early, but I expect the numbers will be OK for you on the dates you list. It...
Good grief! Even my KINDERGARTNERS would tell you that butterflies aren't NIBBLING on leaves. Sheesh. Is it any wonder there are so many misconceptions about...
Dear Mr, "Zazxle" Jessica Griffiths tells me that our Western newsletter now has at least 50 subscribers, and at least 3 of them are closer to you than Pismo...
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Feb 4, 2009 8:21 am
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Hi everyone, I received this forwarded e-mail from a photographer in Southern CA who is looking for overwintering sites closer to Escondido than Pismo Beach....
Hello everyone, Monarch mating has begun in earnest this week at the PG Monarch Sanctuary, and the large clusters have mostly broken up. However, as of...
Hi, Don Davis, and especially the ladies at Ellwood Main!!! This GOOD NEWS message took almst as circuitous a route, as Chris Kline's Arizona wild Monarch...
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Feb 6, 2009 2:03 am
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Helen, you are an ACE networker! We'll send the news around locally. Greetings, Ontario, Canada and Arizona--thanks to Don Davis and to Chris Kline for...
This might be of interest to any educators or tech-savvy monarch enthusiasts in the house. It looks like there will be a webcast from Mexico this month, and...
Back on Jan. 14 I I spotted a blue tagged monarch http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/swma.jpg at the Ellwood Main overwintering site in Goleta, Calif.,...
Paul Cherubini found ours at Ellwood. Also just got word from my team in Mexico that we have at least one blue tag down there waiting to be picked up. An...
http://www.examiner.com/x-2981-SF-Wildlife-Examiner~y2009m2d5-The-fantastic-monarchs-of-Pacific-Grove The fantastic monarchs of Pacific Grove February 5, 6:06...
This is amazing. It seems the only way it would know to go NW instead of to Mexico is that it is a part of a population of Monarchs that have the Ellwood area...
Stanley A. Gorodenski
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Feb 6, 2009 11:01 pm
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... Stan, we know there is no "imprinting in their navigation system" based on the geographical ancestry of the butterflies because back in 1999 over 5,000...
Hi, Chip Taylor: Don Davis forwarded your future Monarch Butterfly plans for the Eastern Part of the United States, and the proposed collaboration with Canada...
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Feb 8, 2009 9:34 pm
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Has anyone checked weather conditions during the whole time between tagging and finding? Â Chris Lange ... From: western_monarchs@yahoogroups.com...
(Deep sigh) You know, the SB News Press is boycotted by many of us for reasons not having to do with monarch mischaracterizations...so I missed reading this...
I have two questions generated by your interesting posting: Where specifically did you net the tagged individual? I assume that the cluster was IN Ellwood...
... At sunset in a low hanging cluster just above the main observation area: http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y189/mastertech/237Vf.jpg (this photo was taken...
Helen: The answer to your question is no. No one has given up on the western population. Future conservation efforts at the national level will focus on...
Chip Taylor
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Feb 9, 2009 8:05 am
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In a message dated 2/8/2009 3:50:51 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, monarchsrule@... writes: NIBBLE!!!!! With a proboscis?????? Genetic modifications. DARPA...
Could you plz. tell me what DARPA is the abbreviation for. And is WMD (weapons of mass destruction)?. I apologize for being so DENSE. I want to be able to...
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Feb 9, 2009 10:14 pm
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and yes the WMD was just as you thought. It's always so tiresome that newspapers send out reporters who are only...
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