On July 31 I wrote that the summer breeding population in California was " doing significantly better than last year" and that the upcoming overwintering...
Hi Martha, Great data. THX Just got Joe Billings data in the mail (Joe doesn't believe in computers! Yet! We'll get him there though!) J265 and J269 were...
Is it illegal to transport Monarchs across state lines at any stage of the life cycle? Stan...
Stan Gorodenski
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Sep 24, 2007 4:00 pm
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Hi all, Was talking to our Instructional Specialist today. She was hiking the other day in a nearby wash and swears that she saw a monarch carrying a smaller...
Hi all, Any word for a symposium this winter? The sooner I find out the better chance I have to get to go. THX chris "Who knew simply being content was the...
You are invited to participate in a monarch butterfly monitoring workshop to be held in Pacific Grove, CA on Saturday November 3 from 8:30 AM to noon. The...
Because Chris asked, Ventana Wildlife Society is planning on hosting the 3rd annual Western Monarch Butterfly Symposium in Pacific Grove, CA sometime in March...
Glad I asked! ;) Yes, let us know as soon as there is a date. That will be a rough time of year for me to get away so the more lead time the better. THX ...
My mother just moved into a retirement community in NH and found a half frozen Monarch the other night so she took it inside. It appeared to be injured....
Hello everyone, I hope everyone had a great summer, and I hope you're all ready for another fun season of monitoring Monarch butterflies! The butterflies are...
Dear Monarch Group- Seems we are once again being hit hard with Spam. I will up the stringency- meaning that I have to approve each message before its posted....
Thanksgiving Count underway! Quickly checked out Marin sites this weekend: a few flyers but only the Alder site occupied. Even Chapman House in Stinson had...
muirmia@...
Nov 28, 2007 7:51 pm
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The Monterey County sites have been counted, and we're having a below average year. Not as low as 2002 (thank goodness), but only 3 of 9 sites occupied! The...
... Yes that's been the case up and down the State for the past 9 years - lots of sites that were purchased for tens, hundreds or millions of dollars since the...
I'm in the preliminary stages of planning a trip to see the monarchs in Michoacan the 3rd week of January. It would be a rather brief 4-5 day trip and involve ...
Hi Jessica: Thanks for keeping me up on your weekly count. I E-Mailed Jack Beigle about SLO counts, and I'm sure he will know, or know who to contact. Helen ...
Helen Johnson
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Nov 30, 2007 8:03 pm
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Paul, your Jan. trip to Michoacan sounds like a dream come true to me, EXCEPT for the SLIGHT complication of being too old to keep up. Too bad they can"t do...
Helen Johnson
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Dec 4, 2007 1:33 am
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Help Chris Kline look for his blue tags AND I have 3 dozen blue/white tags on 3 doz. of Jacob Groth's butterflies that I released in my Salinas backyard, AND...
Helen Johnson
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Dec 5, 2007 9:28 pm
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monitors are reporting in from the Thanksgiving Count...although nothing in from southern part of the state, the early projections for a continuing decline in...
muirmia@...
Dec 6, 2007 7:32 pm
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... Wow, Chris, that's amazing . No one else in the western USA has ever caught and tagged that many wild fall migrant monarchs in one season. Do you happen...
Well, I think I may have under-estimated that 600 number. I bet it will end up closer to 700. I'm still waiting for datasheets from two people. We still...
Well, don't you know. I no more than send this email out and I go check my mailbox and there is Joe's datasheets. Still missing one tagger's data but I do...
Hi all, I thought I would follow up Helen's announcement of our Monarch re-sightings (and Chris's description of his tagging efforts) with a summary of...
Hello everyone, I have an update on our latest tagging session & resighting efforts. On Dec 19, we had our second tagging session at the Monarch Grove...
I'm jumping up and down and yelling again!! It absolutely amazes me that thousands of butterflies have been tagged in California since 2001 with less than 1%...
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Dec 21, 2007 10:50 pm
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Thanks, Don. I'm amazed that a Monarch man from Canada has to tell me about news from Santa Barbara, Ca. but I wouldn't have known the "afterwards" part of...
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Dec 24, 2007 5:55 am
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This is my 5th year of donating 100 Christmas food baskets to St. Anne's Mission in Ganado, Arizon, on the Navajo Indian reservation at the Four Corners. The...
hjohnson1952@...
Dec 24, 2007 5:56 am
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Don: All the California news I have missed until you and I "Reconnected" recently. All of these Ardenwood Monarch programs amazes me, and it seems to me to...
hjohnson1952@...
Jan 2, 2008 3:35 pm
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Howdy, One of my taggers will be visiting California later this month and would like to visit some of the overwintering sites. Can anyone give me directions...