If you ever get the chance, take a trip to Santa Cruz California in October and in through the winter. At a place called Natural Bridges is a grove of Eucalyptus trees that Monarch’s make their winter home. It is quite the sight to see. Millions of butterflies just hanging out. IMO it’s cooler than the swallows coming back to San Juan Capistrano.
Just for the record: the northern shore of the Manicouagan Reservoir in eastern Qeubec is just about that far from the Butterfly Sanctuary. This is an “annular lake,” meaning a circular ring of water with land filling in much of its interior. It’s the result of a meteoroid (big rock!) that struck the land about 215 million years ago. Take a look at a photo from above: it’s a nearly perfect (though irregular in detail) circle of water about 60 miles across (the more-famous crater in Arizona is only about a mile across!). So the butterflies are talking about a long ways away! (I found you can use Google to get direct great-circle distances: right-click on a location, then choose “Measure distance”, then click your destination. Cool!).
I wonder, do butterflies actually migrate thousands of miles? Or do they reproduce several times over the journey so that their offspring may complete it?
judirapelje 6 days ago
Thanks for the smile Chip!!!
Is like a melody Premium Member 6 days ago
Good morning y’all. Once, when I was a kid, I saw a huge flock of migrating cardinals land in a tree. I still remember how beautiful that was!
lgusy 6 days ago
If you ever get the chance, take a trip to Santa Cruz California in October and in through the winter. At a place called Natural Bridges is a grove of Eucalyptus trees that Monarch’s make their winter home. It is quite the sight to see. Millions of butterflies just hanging out. IMO it’s cooler than the swallows coming back to San Juan Capistrano.
Dsnerker 6 days ago
Good Friday Morning everyone!!! A special good morning to Dry and Dragon!
Shikamoo Premium Member 6 days ago
You’d love it there, Louie.
Good morning, Crew!
khjalmarj 6 days ago
Just for the record: the northern shore of the Manicouagan Reservoir in eastern Qeubec is just about that far from the Butterfly Sanctuary. This is an “annular lake,” meaning a circular ring of water with land filling in much of its interior. It’s the result of a meteoroid (big rock!) that struck the land about 215 million years ago. Take a look at a photo from above: it’s a nearly perfect (though irregular in detail) circle of water about 60 miles across (the more-famous crater in Arizona is only about a mile across!). So the butterflies are talking about a long ways away! (I found you can use Google to get direct great-circle distances: right-click on a location, then choose “Measure distance”, then click your destination. Cool!).
eb110americana 6 days ago
I wonder, do butterflies actually migrate thousands of miles? Or do they reproduce several times over the journey so that their offspring may complete it?
rgcviper 5 days ago
A day with the flutter-byes doesn’t sound bad to me at all …
Happy Late Friday, Crew.