Considering my photo documentation of the Monarch (30,000) I have been considering donating to the NH Audubon in Concord NH where I gave many lectures and had an exhibit (NH Public TV had a program on it). keeping things local.
More info about the Monarch:
1) The Mexico wintering areas were first discovered and an article in the August 1976 magazine describes the finding. A Monarch was found with a tag showing it came from Minnesota.
2) The Monarch Watch at the Univ of Kansas Chip Taylor has that program and has materials for school kids including the tagging and tracking.
3) There are two "societies" of Monarchs, the Eastern and the Western The Eastern migrates to Mexico. The Western migrate to Pacific Grove CA.
4) The Monarch winter sites are in danger. The three Mexican sites by logging. The Western by ignorant town officials that permitted the cutting of the trees Monarch's winter over in. A PBS program is about this and the people trying to replant the special trees. I have contacted them.
5) I have also contacted some professors (involved with Monarchs) in universities (WA & MN) about my status knowing the Monarch. Was given the cold shoulder. Guess they didn't like a person that financially his own studying and wasn't a scholar with grants. Who are they helping????
6) There are easy methods of determine a male & female. A male has narrow black veins on the wings and a dark spot on the two lower wings. A female has wider veins, no spot. Also being some distance, observe them in a field. The female is going and landing on the milkweed laying eggs underside the leaves. The male has a Life of Reilly, going from any flower to flower.
7) At the Prescott Park in Portsmouth NH the Monarchs favored one flower type, the Tithonia (Mexican Sunflower). Has a convenient landing platform to drink the nectar and perhaps a favorite color.
8) The life cucles are: It takes about 5 generations for the Monarch to arrive in the VT-NH and northern areas, leaving Mexico in February, arriving about the end of June for the nice young tender milkweed.
Takes two weeks from egg laying to hatching. Usually in August they are ready to return to Mexico, being some five generations of not being there. How do they know? If studying, it's determined "what is so small is so huge".
9. My pics captured the young caterpillar inside the egg having a black head. The first thing they consume is the egg shell, then traveling to the top tender leaves of the plant.
10) MA and some states in the mowing of road sides have allowed the Milkweed alone for the Monarchs. I've given the seeds to peolle. Milkweed is also a great plant to eat.
Just some of my observations, capsulized in short form. Think about it.
Considering my photo documentation of the Monarch (30,000) I have been considering donating to the NH Audubon in Concord NH where I gave many lectures and had an exhibit (NH Public TV had a program on it). keeping things local.
More info about the Monarch:
1) The Mexico wintering areas were first discovered and an article in the August 1976 magazine describes the finding. A Monarch was found with a tag showing it came from Minnesota.
2) The Monarch Watch at the Univ of Kansas Chip Taylor has that program and has materials for school kids including the tagging and tracking.
3) There are two "societies" of Monarchs, the Eastern and the Western The Eastern migrates to Mexico. The Western migrate to Pacific Grove CA.
4) The Monarch winter sites are in danger. The three Mexican sites by logging. The Western by ignorant town officials that permitted the cutting of the trees Monarch's winter over in. A PBS program is about this and the people trying to replant the special trees. I have contacted them.
5) I have also contacted some professors (involved with Monarchs) in universities (WA & MN) about my status knowing the Monarch. Was given the cold shoulder. Guess they didn't like a person that financially his own studying and wasn't a scholar with grants. Who are they helping????
6) There are easy methods of determine a male & female. A male has narrow black veins on the wings and a dark spot on the two lower wings. A female has wider veins, no spot. Also being some distance, observe them in a field. The female is going and landing on the milkweed laying eggs underside the leaves. The male has a Life of Reilly, going from any flower to flower.
7) At the Prescott Park in Portsmouth NH the Monarchs favored one flower type, the Tithonia (Mexican Sunflower). Has a convenient landing platform to drink the nectar and perhaps a favorite color.
8) The life cucles are: It takes about 5 generations for the Monarch to arrive in the VT-NH and northern areas, leaving Mexico in February, arriving about the end of June for the nice young tender milkweed.
Takes two weeks from egg laying to hatching. Usually in August they are ready to return to Mexico, being some five generations of not being there. How do they know? If studying, it's determined "what is so small is so huge".
9. My pics captured the young caterpillar inside the egg having a black head. The first thing they consume is the egg shell, then traveling to the top tender leaves of the plant.
10) MA and some states in the mowing of road sides have allowed the Milkweed alone for the Monarchs. I've given the seeds to peolle. Milkweed is also a great plant to eat.
Just some of my observations, capsulized in short form. Think about it.