[NatureNS] Monarch migration from Nova Scotia to???

From: "Jean Timpa" <jtimpa@ns.sympatico.ca>
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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:02:25 -0300
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	I have seen Monarchs emerging from chrysalids as late as Thanksgiving Weekend 
in Bear River. The frost was heavy on the milkweed, and the butterflies were having a 
difficult time to warm up, but in the end they did warm up and sail off westward.
	To throw a monkey wrench in the picture, Dr. Urquhart from the University of 
Toronto, spent a lifetime studying the Monarchs and finally discovered that the ones he was 
tagging in Ontario and Quebec were going SW to Mexico. I don't know that he was ever 
successful in obtaining many or any volunteers from this area to determine where our 
Monarchs migrate in the fall.  Recently I heard or have read that there is another wintering 
ground in Cuba, and our butterflies would be more likely to end up there, rather than make 
the extra long journey to Mexico. 
	Wish I could get to Bear River as I expect there are a lot there this year.  JET

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