Date: 09/05/2006

Number: 1

On Monday, September 4th, my wife and I spent 5 hours tagging monarchs. They were more plentiful, but not at peak migration yet. We walked a lot of miles up and down a large field of clover and alfalfa. We ended up tagging 40. Last night on Sept. 5th, we went to the same field and tagged 48 in 70 minutes. The monarchs were all over, and we hardly had to walk at all. At one time I had 3 monarchs in my net waiting to be tagged. It looks like the migration in this area of Wisconsin is starting to heat up. It is about 1 week later than the past 5 years. We are going to have a cold snap this weekend (temps in the 60s) so it will be interesting to see what happens to the migration.

Shawano, WI

Latitude: 44.8 Longitude: -88.6

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