Date: 10/20/2015

Number: 1

The Pacific Northwest Monarch Research Project has had its first long distance tag recovery of the season!

A Monarch raised and tagged by Vicki Mion on September 17 in Brookings on the southern Oregon coast was sighted on October 16 by Deb Ospina nectaring on garden Milkweed at Aptos just south of Santa Cruz in California.

This Monarch likely traveled a straight line distance of at least 380 miles SSE. This is the first record to my knowledge of apparent migration coastally from southern Oregon to central California. Of course it may have travelled a more convoluted (and lengthy) inland route.

Since August 1, about 35 citizen scientists in WA, OR, ID and NV have helped tag Monarchs for our project. This along with our Washington State University and Washington State Penitentiary rearing programs has enabled us to tag close to 3000 Monarchs this fall.

Please watch out for our Pacific Northwest-tagged Monarchs this fall and winter!

Courtesy of Monarch Watch

Yakima, WA

Latitude: 46.7 Longitude: -120.4

Observed by: David
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