Date: 05/23/2001

Number: 1

Contributed by Don Davis:


I saw a number of Monarchs in Nipigon, on May 23 (while driving out to Lethbridge, Alberta). It was actually on the Trans-Canada highway about 2km east of Nipigon that I saw my first Monarch (and whacked it with the car, I'm afraid), but I also saw a healthy pair cavorting in the weeds when I stopped at the Nipigon roadside tourist info booth.



Adds Don: I'm really taken back by the number of northern Ontario reports of
monarch butterflies that I am receiving, given that reports in southern
Ontario seem infrequent, scattered and inconsistent. The following report
was made by Vanessa Carney, a member of the Toronto Entomologists'
Association. Nipigon is way up on the north shore of Lake Superior, east
of Thunder Bay, and approaching the northern limit of milkweed.

Nipigon, ON

Latitude: 49 Longitude: -88.3

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