Date: 04/02/2010

Number: 1

With all the concern about the migration from MX, I am curious as to whether Monarch adults are being seen in Florida. Our state has suffered a very severe winter with freezing temperatures reaching far south into the peninsular interior.

My Waystation is #1777 in St. Petersburg, FL, about midway down the peninsula. Although I did discover about ten fifth instar larva over the past week on some sheltered A. curassavica, much of my planting was damaged by the cold, but not destroyed totally, I have not seen an adult flying since some time in February. By early April, normally monarchs are in numbers flying around, but nothing to date since February. As cold as it has been, I suspect these larva are probably from eggs laid in February. Larva have been growing very slowly, six weeks or longer and pupae two weeks or more to eclose.

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Saint Petersburg, FL

Latitude: 27.8 Longitude: -82.6

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