Date: 09/01/2008

Number: 1

September 1st seemed very close to being the peak migration for this year. (Tagged 137 monarchs that day.) It will be interesting to see as a cold front with storms is scheduled to come through on Tuesday 2Sept08. Up until then it was warm (in the eighties) with clear skies and none to very windy conditions.

Below is a summary of multi-day tagging. Look down for the specific date you're interested in reading about, as this will be posted for each day Monarchs were tagged.

10Aug08:
Total tagged = 1, # Females 1, % Females = 100

23Aug08:
Total tagged = 2, # Females 0, % Females = 0

25Aug08:
Total tagged = 1, # Females 1, % Females = 100, only after 5 pm

26Aug08:
Total tagged = 10, # Females 8, % Females = 80, only after 5 pm

28Aug08:
Total tagged = 25, # Females 7, % Females = 28, only after 5 pm

29Aug08:
Total tagged = 5, # Females 2, % Females = 40, only after 5 pm

30Aug08:
Total tagged = 105, # Females 63, % Females = 60, sunny and slight to windy, tagged all day except 11 to 1

31Aug08:
Total tagged = 52, # Females 29, % Females = 56, tagged all day, sunny and extremely windy.

1Sept08:
Total tagged = 137, # Females 172, % Females = 53, sunny and slight to windy, tagged all day

2Sept08:
Total tagged = 0, Cloudy, cool (70's) cloudy and rainy. Only observed after 5 pm.

Total tagged to date: 338, Number of Females = 183, % Females = 54.1

Minneapolis, MN

Latitude: 45 Longitude: -93.3

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