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California Is Seeing 50 Times More Monarch Butterflies This Year
KSBW ^ | Dec 3, 2021 | Alexa Bertola

Posted on 12/03/2021 4:50:03 PM PST by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

We’ve seen big differences in various birds and bugs numbers along our migratory flyway over the years, the cycles are interesting. The varmints vary a lot in numbers too.


21 posted on 12/03/2021 5:27:00 PM PST by SaxxonWoods
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To: Clutch Martin

Let’s hope that monarchs have more sense than the Democrats who are running so many of these types of failed cities. Minneapolis, Portland, San Fransicko, Seattle (my home town), and so forth.


22 posted on 12/03/2021 5:29:57 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: nickcarraway

I’m in FL and seeing 10x more bees than I have in the last few years.


23 posted on 12/03/2021 5:31:37 PM PST by VastRWCon (Fake News")
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To: Trillian

The news report explains how they count them and that there are several people counting.

First thing I said when they explained how they counted was, “Instead of counting clusters hurriedly, why not take pictures and then count them later?”


24 posted on 12/03/2021 5:45:39 PM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: nickcarraway

Keep the reports coming!

If any others have never seen over-wintering Monarchs in the trees, it is truly an amazing sight!

I didn’t know that they overwintered near Pismo! Another location to visit.

Pacific Grove and Ardenwood in Fremont, CA are also great spots to see the Monarchs.


25 posted on 12/03/2021 5:47:58 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“…in any great disaster, there's a Harvard man in the middle of it.” ~ Thomas Sowell)
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To: nickcarraway

Sure sign of a large earthquake coming.


26 posted on 12/03/2021 5:50:22 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: dsrtsage; All
"But Gorebull Hoaxing supposedly killed them all"
"Researchers also say global climate change and warming is the real culprit as to why these monarchs are in decline." —Monarch butterfly population declining, Fox 17, 7.28.21.

27 posted on 12/03/2021 5:56:33 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: digger48

Weather modification programs producing a dry winter and drought to blame everybody for their standard of living.


28 posted on 12/03/2021 6:15:51 PM PST by conservativeimage (Spark up a fire. Light up this place. Burn out this darkness and tear down the fear.)
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To: nickcarraway

I’m in York PA, and this Spring/Summer/Fall, I saw around 5-6 Monarchs, instead of the usual 30+. Very unusual.


29 posted on 12/03/2021 6:39:37 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: digger48

Herbicides and pesticides aren’t. Around here, the lawn mowing companies spray that crap like there’s no tomorrow.

For 23yrs, 1989-2012, when I owned and ran my 20ac Nursery/ Garden Center/ Landscape Contracting Operation, we used IPM (Integrated Pest Management) using praying mantis, ladybugs and NO pesticides or herbicides.


30 posted on 12/03/2021 6:44:32 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: nickcarraway

Obviously the climate is getting better than it ever was.

Time to stop these stupid attempts to “stop climate change.”


31 posted on 12/03/2021 7:22:37 PM PST by TigersEye (Ray Epps didn't kill himself.)
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To: nickcarraway

How’s the Pussycat Swallowtail doing? That was my favorite.


32 posted on 12/03/2021 7:42:07 PM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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33 posted on 12/03/2021 9:21:18 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Born to Conserve

You stirred my memory- I have heard that before…..


34 posted on 12/03/2021 9:53:56 PM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: nickcarraway

If you fry them up they taste like monarch chips.


35 posted on 12/04/2021 1:27:55 AM PST by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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