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Look at the webpage http://www.mission-monarch.org/mission-monarch-blitz/ Monarch Mission is a effort to survey for Monarch butterflies and provide webspace to report your results during the summer season. The Blitz is this coming next weekend on August 13-14 and is means to capture the state of breeding habitat in Canada. Negative results need to be reported as well as positive. I surveyed several of the larger milkweed patches in Waterville yesterday and unfortunately saw no evidence. I saw no damage to leaves indicating larger Monarch caterpillars present. I saw no adult Monarchs flying. I found one new patch. My milkweed field on the other hand is producing. We still have at least three adult Monarchs flying around and we are still finding eggs and tiny larvae on leaves of small milkweed plants. We have yet to see larger larvae on our milkweed. This is discouraging because our earlier collect of eggs are in the chrysalis stage. We also have many larger caterpillers that will pupate in a few days. We see none of this in the wild in our field so predators are very effective. Lisa Proulx has reported finding caterpillars in the wild. We need to keep looking and report findings. So... Please explore your nearby milkweed and look for caterpillars and report it to Mission Monarch. If you live in the Annapolis Valley, we have located over 50 sites with milkweed and I have mapped it. So you can use that map to go to one or more of these Common milkweed sites. The map is on http://valleynature.ca or specifically http://nw.nature1st.net/index.php?id=milkweed-common-locations I noted that some of the sites near my home have been mowed in the last week so there will be some of these sites missing. Cheers, Larry ////// === /////// Larry Bogan Brooklyn Corner, Nova Scotia <larry@bogan.ca>
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