Monarch Watch Trip to Mexico (overview)

9 March 2009 | Author: Chip Taylor

We have just returned from our annual trip to Mexico to purchase tags recovered at the overwintering sites. This is just a brief overview of the trip - a more detailed report will be posted soon. We purchased about 1,000 tags ...

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Abies religiosa and Danaus plexippus

3 March 2009 | Author: Jim Lovett

Daniel Mosquin, Education and Technology Manager at the UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research, recently posted some photos and video taken at the Sierra Chincua Monarch Butterfly Reserve in Mexico. If you'd like to learn a bit more ...

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World on the Move: Great Animal Migrations

1 March 2009 | Author: Chip Taylor

Last year at this time I was working with a BBC Radio crew in Mexico to record observations of the overwintering monarch population - as a part of their “World on the Move” series of programs in which they followed ...

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“Monarch River” at Cerro Pelon

21 January 2008 | Author: Jim

Last October, our tagging program was featured in an ABC World News segment ("A Nation on Monarch Watch"). This segment utilized some of my footage (shot in March, 2007) of streaming monarchs at Cerro Pelon in central Mexico. ...

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2007: Unusual Migration & Hotter Than Normal Fall

18 January 2008 | Author: Jim

Tagging has shown that the timing and pace of the migration is generally quite predictable (see "Peak Migration Dates"). The pace of the migration was normal this year as the butterflies advanced from 50 degrees latitude in the north to ...

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Where Are They Now/Late Monarchs

3 December 2001 | Author: Jim

We have been told over the years that the last of the monarchs that overwinter in Mexico arrive at the colony sites during the first week of December. This may in fact be the case. However, as I ...

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Late Migrants and Population Size

2 November 2001 | Author: Jim

Although there have been killing frosts over much of the northern portion of the breeding range, late monarchs have been reported with some regularity over the past two weeks and, as recently as yesterday (1 November), two monarchs were spotted ...

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Where Are They Now?

2 November 2001 | Author: Jim

The leading edge of the migration seems to have arrived near the overwintering sites in Mexico a bit early this year. Reports on Dplex-L, the email list we maintain for those wishing to post reports on monarchs, indicated ...

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Where are they now?

9 October 2001 | Author: Jim

The migration is right on schedule. At this writing (9 October) there appear to be monarchs in good numbers in a broad band from southern Oklahoma to the Mexican border. High concentrations of monarchs have been seen in the vicinity ...

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Migration Forecast

10 September 2001 | Author: Jim

The leading edge of the migration is expected to progress southward from approximately 39 degrees N on the 10th to 36:50 on the 17th. The migration is expected to peak approximately 10 days after the arrival of the front at ...

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