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September 20, 2000
09/16/00 Salina, KS (38.50 N, -97.36 W)
"The students at St. Mary School in Salina, KS reported seeing a total of 58 monarchs over the weekend of
9/16 and 9/17. Most were single butterflies. Several were reported to be in small groups of 3-5. Terry saw lots
of monarchs in McPherson, KS (ca. 30 miles away) on 9/13/00." St. Mary School (minnemangr4stmarys@hotmail.com)
09/18/00 Overland Park, KS (38.99 N, -94.67 W)
"The last few weeks I would only observer about 2 Monarchs per week...no directional movement observed until
today. Today, the Monarch sighting rate was about 10 per hour."
09/18/00 Aline, OK (36.50 N, -98.50 W)
"Thousands of Monarchs are arriving in our 50 acre wildlife habitat at Heritage Manor Bed and Breakfast."
AJ Rexroat (heritage@pldi.net)
09/15/00 Cordell, OK (35.24 N, -98.85 W)
"A cold front came through our state on Thursday evening (Sept. 14) On Friday, Sept. 15, I saw about 20 monarchs.
I have seen about so Monarchs every day since Sept. 15." Besty Simpson (beejay_73632@yahoo)
And more monarchs continued to flood down from the north:
09/14/00 Mequon, WI (43.21 N, -87.95 W)
"The Mequon monarch migration began last evening (9-13-00) and continues today. At noon on the recess playground
students were counting one monarch "flyby" every 3-4 minutes, so the Wisconsin monarchs are on their
way to Mexico." Steve and John and the 6th Graders of Lake Shore M.S. (skupcho@mtsd.k12.wi.us)
09/14/00 Lewistown, MO (40.09 N, -91.82 W)
"They are here! Cold front came in about 6 am and I have looked every 15 minutes, finally at 11 am I spotted
them! Flying by one a time, far above the tree tops. I have seen about 100 monarchs in about 45 minutes. The wind
is from the north at about 20 mph and the sky has huge white clouds. The startling orange against the white is
beautiful." Jan Kitzing (loon@marktwain.net)
09/19/00 Fairfield, OH (39.32 N, -84.54 W)
"We are watching monarch butterflies fly south through our backyard at the rate of 18 per half hour. We started
to notice them shortly before noon today." (twoifby@one.net)
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