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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-28-692702392 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi all, On 27-Sep-06, at 4:22 PM, Bob McDonald wrote: > I too am rather confused by this "current knowledge". I was under > the impression that the Monarchs that we are seeing now are the > ones which over-winter in the forested mountains of Michoecan in > Mexico. Then, when they leave the forests in late February and > March, they may only fly to Texas before stopping to lay eggs, etc > and the next generation continues the northward migration. The > Monarchs we see here in the summer will be several generations > removed from the ones which left Mexico in March. I'm sure this is correct. That's how Fred Urquhardt et al. originally found the wintering grounds of the Monarchs in Mexico, by tagging adult butterflies in North America that were ultimately tracked and found in Michoacan in Mexico. The gradual northward migration is one that takes place across 2-3 generations; the southward migration is done by one. Cheers, Chris _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _. Christopher Majka - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3A6 (902) 424-6435 Email <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _. --Apple-Mail-28-692702392 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 <HTML><BODY style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all,<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On = 27-Sep-06, at 4:22 PM, Bob McDonald wrote:</DIV><BR = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite"><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; = font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT = size=3D"2"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 10px; = ">I too am rather confused by this "current knowledge".=A0 I was under = the impression that the Monarchs that we are seeing now are the ones = which over-winter in the forested=A0mountains of Michoecan in Mexico.=A0 = Then, when they leave the forests in late February and March, they may = only fly to Texas before stopping to lay eggs, etc and the next = generation continues the northward migration.=A0 The Monarchs we see = here in the summer=A0will be=A0several generations removed from the ones = which left Mexico in = March.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>I'm sure this is correct. That's = how Fred Urquhardt et al. originally found the wintering grounds of the = Monarchs in Mexico, by tagging adult butterflies in North America that = were ultimately tracked and found in=A0Michoacan in Mexico. The=A0gradual = northward migration is one that takes place across 2-3 generations; the = southward migration is done by one.</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers,</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Chris<BR><DIV> <P = style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px = Times">_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._= ._._._.</FONT></P> <P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT = face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Times">Christopher Majka = - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History</FONT></P> <P style=3D"margin: = 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Times">1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada<SPAN = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 </SPAN>B3H 3A6</FONT></P> <P = style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Times">(902) 424-6435 <SPAN = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 </SPAN>Email <<A = href=3D"mailto:c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca">c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca</A>></F= ONT></P> <P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times"= size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Times">_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._= ._._._.</FONT></P> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>= --Apple-Mail-28-692702392--
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