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- Dan
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- Lyle
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- Southeast Idaho
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What a spectacle! One that will, unfortunately, be gone soon as monarchs are nearly extinct in the western flyway.
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- Whidbey Island
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- Lyle
Monarch counts in 2021 were much higher (~50x) than the critically low census of 2020, but the decline is still of grave concern.
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- Southeast Idaho
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- Dan
That is good news. I hope that they can recover, but it is pretty dire for them. I remember as a kid in Utah seeing monarchs all the time. Often we would find monarch chrysalis in our yard. Most years now, in Idaho, I don't see a single monarch all year.
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- Whidbey Island
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- Lyle
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- North Carolina
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- Rashid
Good to know. Last couple of years I've seen very few (only two last year).
I reported my two monarchs to Welcome to Journey North which appears to be connected to the University of Wisconsin, Addison.
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- Southeast Idaho
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- Dan
What a great story and really cool find.
I did find a monarch last Thanksgiving in Terlingua, Texas. Eastern flyway, though.
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Zebra Heliconian, Reseca de la Palma State Park, Texas.
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- Lyle
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- Southeast Idaho
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Red Admiral wings closed. Mission, Texas.
Same Red Admiral with wings open.
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Same Red Admiral with wings open.
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Colorado Hairstreak, Mueller Park, Utah. In August I took my kids and wife to visit my Dad who was living in Salt Lake City. He had a doctor's appointment in the morning, so we had a little time to kill before we could meet up with him. I'd read that colorado hairstreaks were easy to find in July at Mueller Park by Bountiful, Utah, so we stopped there on the way. My middle daughter is really into photographing butterflies with me and we were fortunate in finding some of these that morning. My dad had been in declining health the last month or so and the doctor's hadn't yet determined what was going on. I told my daughter that it would be a special thing if we found these colorado hairstreaks on the last day that the kids say him alive. As it turned out, that was the case. He was diagnosed with advanced, metastasized cancer a couple of weeks later and died 10 days after that. My daughter makes a calendar each year of her butterfly photos and for 2022 she put her picture of a colorado hairstreak in the month of my dad's birth.
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- Beaumaris, Melbourne, Australia
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- John ...
Our condolences on the death of your Dad.
We are all just butterflies, in the grand scheme of things.
Candles in the wind ...
We are all just butterflies, in the grand scheme of things.
Candles in the wind ...
