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From: by way of Elizabeth Howard Journey North (heaa@tisd.net)
Date: Mon May 19 2003 - 13:04:12 EDT

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    Monarch Watchers,

    We watched a monarch cross TX1090 in front of us from south to
    north last about six miles NW of Port Lavaca last Wednesday afternoon.
    One of the reports to the TX-Butterfly list from yesterday included two
    monarchs at Aransas NWR about thirty miles southwest of us. The
    Wednesday after we had the largest of our releases in Victoria (48
    hours later), a tagged monarch was seen by several students and
    teachers at a school in Halletsville, about thirty miles north-northwest

    of Victoria. As far as we know it was not captured.

    The wildflowers that are blooming along the peninsula (was the
    approach to the old Lavaca Bay Causeway, Point Comfort end)
    have finally come alive with butterflies! We were over at noon
    yesterday and were surprised at all the Funereal Duskywings to
    be seen. We went back at ten this morning and I stopped counting
    Funereals when we got to fifty. Also impressive were the numbers
    of Orange and Large Orange sulphurs (yellows, whites, and
    sulphurs in general), Gulf and Variegated Fritillaries, American
    Ladies, Common Buckeyes, plus some Tawny Emperors, Gray
    Hairstreaks, Queens, Southern Dogfaces, many others that we
    just didn't stop to ID like crescents and "other" skippers.
    Several Pipevine Swallowtails were in the area and one Giant
    Swallowtail as got near home. A fantastic morning watching
    the flowers fly back and forth!

    As all these ideas for activities relating to monarchs and special
    monarch events come in over the season, would someone please
    compile them so that there would be one location to view such
    a list of ideas and happenings.

    Very, very dry! Nearing fifty days without rain ... and then there
    will be too much, too fast ... temps in low 90's ... chance of rain
    Wednesday.

              Harlen

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    Some quick snapshots from 2 1/2 days hunting for early April
    remigrating monarchs in the valley, northern DeWitt Co., back
    in early April, plus A. viridis the same week around Victoria.
          http://asclepias.homestead.com/apr0703.html
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    Harlen E. and Altus Aschen mailto:heaa@tisd.net
    home: Port Lavaca, Calhoun County, TX midcoast 28.61N 96.62W
    school: Victoria Christian School, 801 E. Airline, Victoria, TX 77901
    http://asclepias.homestead.com/



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