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--Apple-Mail=_B2243A01-903D-4D4B-850A-D8F20EDD400F Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Larry and Alison, Your original note (below) asked about monarchs from = here possibly overwintering in Florida. Is it known how many monarchs = stay in Florida for the winter then presumably fly north in spring like = the Mexico monarchs and then begin breeding on their way back to New = England and to us? I thought that most of the Florida monarchs try to = cross the Gulf of Mexico to get to Mexico for the winter? Cheers from Jim, and more congratulations to you two for long-lasting = efforts, from Wolfville. Begin forwarded message: > From: Larry Bogan <larry@bogan.ca> > Subject: [NatureNS] Monarch tag found in Mexico from NS > Date: July 12, 2016 at 11:23:00 AM ADT > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >=20 > I finally got around to checking the Monarch Watch list of tags found = in Mexico for the 2015 season. We have been tagging for several years = and have never had a return BUT this year one of our tags was retrieved = in El Rosario, Mexico.=20 > http://monarchwatch.org/tagmig/recoveries.htm (The El Rosario = Butterfly Preserve is 110 km west Mexico City) >=20 > Monarch UGL-881 was released on 29 August 2015 from our home at = Brooklyn Corners, Kings County, Nova Scotia along with four other = Monarchs. It was a female. Her tag was recovered on 6th of March 2016. = We had tagged four of the five Monarchs that day. All total we tagged 50 = Monarchs of 75 raised last year. UGL-881 was the ninth Monarch we = released last year and the seventh one tagged. Interestingly, our tags = ranged from UGL-875 thru UGL-824 and UGL-881 was the only UGL tag found = this year. The distance between our home and the El Rosario Reserve is = a great circle distance of 4330 km . >=20 > This answers some questions that we have had. Do our Monarchs go all = the way to Mexico or head for Florida? Can they make it all the way to = Mexico from Nova Scotia? Are we really contributing to the maintenance = of the migration of Monarch? >=20 > This has encouraged us to continue our yearly efforts in raising = Monarch above and beyond what can survive in the wild. >=20 > ////// =3D=3D=3D /////// > Larry Bogan=20 > Brooklyn Corner, Nova Scotia > <larry@bogan.ca> --Apple-Mail=_B2243A01-903D-4D4B-850A-D8F20EDD400F Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html = charset=3Dus-ascii"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Larry = and Alison, Your original note (below) asked about monarchs from here = possibly overwintering in Florida. Is it known how many monarchs = stay in Florida for the winter then presumably fly north in spring like = the Mexico monarchs and then begin breeding on their way back to New = England and to us? I thought that most of the Florida monarchs try = to cross the Gulf of Mexico to get to Mexico for the = winter?<div><br></div><div>Cheers from Jim, and more congratulations to = you two for long-lasting efforts, from Wolfville.<br><div><br><div>Begin = forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, = 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Larry Bogan <<a = href=3D"mailto:larry@bogan.ca">larry@bogan.ca</a>><br></span></div><div= style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, = 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>[NatureNS] Monarch tag found in = Mexico from NS</b><br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">July 12, 2016 at = 11:23:00 AM ADT<br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a><br></s= pan></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, = 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';"><a= = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a><br></s= pan></div><br><div>I finally got around to checking the Monarch Watch = list of tags found in Mexico for the 2015 season. We have been tagging = for several years and have never had a return BUT this year one of our = tags was retrieved in El Rosario, Mexico. <br><a = href=3D"http://monarchwatch.org/tagmig/recoveries.htm">http://monarchwatch= .org/tagmig/recoveries.htm</a> (The El Rosario Butterfly Preserve = is 110 km west Mexico City)<br><br>Monarch UGL-881 was released on 29 = August 2015 from our home at Brooklyn Corners, Kings County, Nova Scotia = along with four other Monarchs. It was a female. Her tag was recovered = on 6th of March 2016. We had tagged four of the five Monarchs that day. = All total we tagged 50 Monarchs of 75 raised last year. UGL-881 was the = ninth Monarch we released last year and the seventh one tagged. = Interestingly, our tags ranged from UGL-875 thru UGL-824 and UGL-881 was = the only UGL tag found this year. The distance between our home = and the El Rosario Reserve is a great circle distance of 4330 km = .<br><br>This answers some questions that we have had. Do our Monarchs = go all the way to Mexico or head for Florida? Can they make it all = the way to Mexico from Nova Scotia? Are we really contributing to the = maintenance of the migration of Monarch?<br><br>This has encouraged us = to continue our yearly efforts in raising Monarch above and beyond what = can survive in the wild.<br><br>////// =3D=3D=3D ///////<br>Larry Bogan = <br>Brooklyn Corner, Nova Scotia<br><<a = href=3D"mailto:larry@bogan.ca">larry@bogan.ca</a>><br></div></blockquot= e></div><br></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_B2243A01-903D-4D4B-850A-D8F20EDD400F--
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