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Monarch Butterfly Migration Update: June 9, 2006

Today's Report Includes:

 This Week's Migration Maps and Data

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News from the Migration Trail
Monarch sightings continued to fly in last week but most were about observations that were made the week before. Of the 41 sightings in today’s update, 30 were part of the previous week's extravaganza. Only 11 sightings occurred during the last 7 days.

Here are some highlights:

  • Most of the news came from Canada this week, the final nation on the monarch's international tri-national tour.
  • Monarchs are now being seen in the nation's capital, according to a June 1 report from Ottawa, Ontario.
  • Monarchs are now being seen by people who speak the third language a monarch might overhear: "Bonjour. Aujourd'hui le 7 Juin j'ai observer 3 monarques qui se dirigeaient rapidement vers le Nord-Est."

Canadian students across the land stopped what they were doing and took note of the monarchs:

  • "Linnell saw a monarch after school while playing in the north recess yard. She was on the monkey bars," reported King Edward Public School in Toronto, Ontario.
  • "Students saw the first Monarch in the school yard AND they found lots of eggs and caterpillars on the school's milkweed plants!" according to Hillcrest Central School of Teeswater, Ontario.
  • Observers at T.W. Morison Public School in Deep River, Ontario saw their first monarch on May 30th. "There are now many more visiting the school gardens and other gardens as of June 3," they reported.
  • A graduate student in the Entomology Department at the University of Manitoba was studying bee diversity of the southwestern Manitoba prairie and saw several adult monarch butterflies near Treesbank, Manitoba.

The monarch miigration is drawing to a close, but please send news about YOUR first sighting whenever it occurs.

Stay Tuned: The Monarch Migration Continues!

Other Journey North migrations are coming to an end, but we track the monarchs until they've expanded across their entire breeding range. This normally takes until mid-June.

 

The Next Monarch Migration Update Will Be Posted on June 16, 2006


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