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Monarch
Butterfly Migration Update: June 9, 2006 |
Today's
Report Includes:
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This
Week's Migration Maps and Data |
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today's data to make your own map, or print and analyze our map:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The
Next Monarch Migration Update Will Be Posted on June 16, 2006 |
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