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Co-Administrator
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Midwest
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The spring 2009 northward migration of the Monarch butterfly can be watched here:
Monarch Butterfly Migration Map, Spring 2009 There's lots more information on the spring migration here: Journey North: Monarch Butterfly Migration Update: March 5, 2009 You can also report your sightings of Monarchs and Milkweeds. |
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WG Ways and Means
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: South of the Cheddar Curtain
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It's amazing the picture in that link with the swarm of Monarchs (the ones with the graphs on them)
Glad Monarchs don't have sharp beaks |
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Too Wild To Garden
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
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You sure are in a good mood today, Green Man.
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WG Ways and Means
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: South of the Cheddar Curtain
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I have some catching up to do, I've been workin some heavy hours and have neglected my computer..
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Too Wild To Garden
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
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Thank you for the links Cirsium!
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Grub
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Rogersville, TN USA
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The links are awesome and as I was looking at the animated one, I could not help but wonder if they (the butterflys) will head slightly east before continueing to go north considering the early spring "winter storms" in the mid west right now. Or will the cold and snow stop them "dead in their tracks" from their annual migration north before they head eastward?
It still amazes me how an insect that "according to science" does not have a brain to think or reason, knows which migration routes to follow, at what time of the year, and when to return. let alone, which plants are okay to lay its eggs on and everything else it does "by instinct".
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Unicellular Fungi
Join Date: Nov 2008
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http://www.cafcs.wvu.edu/plsc/faculty/Entomology/park/ENTO404/L33.pdf What this tells us is that when we buy plants that our butterfly friends can't recognize as food, we might as well be planting silk flowers in the ground. We humans use our senses to detect what is food and what isn't food to us too. Even toddlers won't try to eat plastic look alike food from play stations.
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Carbon
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Northern Illinois
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Saw the first of the season today flying by my house! Never ceases to amaze...
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Grub
Join Date: May 2009
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I saw one today as well! It really is amazing how such a delicate creature can make such an incredible journey and defeat the odds to procreate.
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Big Fat juicy WORM
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Virginia, USA
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Saw my first one yesterday! Yeah!!!
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2009, butterfly, map, migration, milkweed, monarch, spring, started |
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