I just saw a single Monarch in our hillside prairie where we have planted milkweed. Hope.
Becky Field Orono On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 3:10 PM Tom Gilde < 00002247eb7407f6-dmarc-requ...@lists.umn.edu> wrote: > One of the profound threats to Monarchs is the decline of their wintering > forest. It's not just logging but also climate change. I'm planting > milkweeds, anyway. > > > > Tom Gilde > > > On Fri, 19 Jul, 2024 at 2:41 PM, Jeanne Baumann <jbaumann-...@outlook.com> > wrote: > > > To: mou-net@lists.umn.edu > > I've seen one single monarch - just yesterday. And my yard is full of > wild milkweed. > > On 7/19/2024 12:22 PM, Missy Bowen wrote: > > No monarchs. Troubling. > > > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2024, 12:17 PM Jeffrey Saffle< > jeffrey.saf...@hsc.utah.edu<mailto:jeffrey.saf...@hsc.utah.edu>> > > wrote: > > > >> We have a few hummers here in Lake Elmo but I’m much more struck by a > >> near-total absence of monarch butterflies. I successfully raised and > >> released 16 monarchs in June/early July but since then I’ve only found > one > >> caterpillar and seen one adult. I suspect the relentlessly rainy > weather > >> was hard on them. What are others’ thought? > >> Jeffrey Saffle > >> Sent from my iPhone > >> > >>> On Jul 19, 2024, at 11:27 AM, Jason Frank<jmfran...@gmail.com<mailto: > jmfran...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >>> > >>> I'm in Ortonville, and haven't seen a single hummingbird all summer > >> long. I > >>> only saw a few in the spring. > >>> > >>> There are no Japanese Beetles this far west yet, so no one around here > is > >>> spraying for them. Plenty of people are spraying for everything else, > >>> though. Ortonville is governed by the type of 20th Century idiocy that > >>> employs a municipal mosquito spray truck which circles the town once a > >> week > >>> to kill every flying insect in its path (can't have all dem golfers and > >>> lakeshore dwellers gettin all itchy, don't ya know). There are plenty > of > >>> flowers around town, and good nesting habitat in the parks and > ravines. I > >>> too am noticing low numbers of Barn and Tree Swallows... and I haven't > >> seen > >>> a Kestrel since April. At this point, it could be a whole cumulative > >> effect > >>> of climate, over-spraying and insect population collapse, and bird flu, > >>> which I'd imagine could spread to hummers if their feeders are in close > >>> proximity to seed and suet feeders. All those storms and heavy rain > >> during > >>> nesting season probably didn't help, either. > >>> > >>> Jason Frank > >>> > >>>> On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 8:36 PM Nancy Steinhauser < > nancyhu...@gmail.com<mailto:nancyhu...@gmail.com> > >>>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Wondering if anyone else has seen the numbers go down this summer. > >> From a > >>>> great start (over 30 birds arrived at the feeders.....and who knows > the > >>>> ones I didn't see) in mid-May, the numbers now have dwindled to less > >> than a > >>>> dozen, and that's up from 3 or 4 because the little ones have fledged. > >>>> Neighbors and co-workers (the north shore and inland above Two > Harbors) > >>>> have reported the same "drop" in birds. Bewildered. They started to > >>>> disappear early to mid-June and have not returned. Wondering about > bird > >>>> flu. > >>>> We have had a huge mosquito population this summer because of all the > >>>> rain. But that hasn't dropped hummingbird numbers coming to feeders > in > >>>> previous wet summers. > >>>> Any ideas/experiences? The numbers here have been steadily going up > for > >>>> over > >>>> 25 years. Many feeders out. Such a shock to have so few birds. > >>>> Thanks in advance. > >>>> Nancy in Superior Highlands > >>>> > >>>> ---- > >>>> General information and guidelines for posting: > >>>> https://moumn.org/listservice.html > >>>> Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > >>>> > >>>> During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice > >> social > >>>> distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. > >>>> > >>> ---- > >>> General information and guidelines for posting: > >> https://moumn.org/listservice.html > >>> Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > >>> > >>> During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice > >> social distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. > >> > >> ---- > >> General information and guidelines for posting: > >> https://moumn.org/listservice.html > >> Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > >> > >> During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice > social > >> distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. > >> > > ---- > > General information and guidelines for posting: > https://moumn.org/listservice.html > > Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > > > During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice > social distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. > > ---- > General information and guidelines for posting: > https://moumn.org/listservice.html > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social > distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. > . > > ---- > General information and guidelines for posting: > https://moumn.org/listservice.html > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social > distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. > ---- General information and guidelines for posting: https://moumn.org/listservice.html Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social distancing, and continue to bird responsibly.
