many red admirals in Wichita

[Jim Mason]

We have scads of red admirals here currently.  Looks like a banner year for them!

 

Jim Mason, Naturalist

J...@gpnc.org

Great Plains Nature Center

6232 E. 29th Street North

Wichita, KS 67220-2200

316-683-5499 x103 - voice

316-688-9555 - fax

www.gpnc.org

 

[Gary Sibio]

Ditto for Chicago

Gary

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[Dana, Robert , DNR]

So that’s where all the red admirals here in Minnesota must be coming from! We’ve been seeing them for several weeks now, usually one or two at a time, but on Saturday, a mild, sunny day, they were suddenly everywhere in Minneapolis, where I live. When I walked over to see whether any pollinators were active in my neighbor’s cherry tree about a dozen took wing and zoomed around before returning to the blossoms. I’m curious whether some weather event brought a wave in or whether they have been accumulating here over the past several weeks and laying low with the return to more normal cool temps for this time of year. Daily highs for more than a week prior to Saturday had been on the cool side, but Friday brought a pretty good breeze from the southeast.

[Don Lafontaine]

Yesterday (April 16) was a warm windy day (it was 82 F). As I was driving from Kingston to Ottawa in eastern Ontario Canada (between 11 am to 1 pm) red admirals were crossing the highway several a minute for much of the 100 mile trip.

 

Don Lafontaine

[in...@srilankaninsects.net]

Saw a few red admirals yesterday (Apr 16) whizzing around my garden in
Toronto Canada!

Nancy

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[Bruce Walsh]

No red admirals yet seen this year down here in SE Arizona. Must have
all flown
north for the winter!

[Dave Clermont]

With the strong winds we had yesterday and especially today, they reached us
in Granby / Quebe (april 17th)
Today I saw around 30+ of them flying very fast, all following the wind that
was blowing in the north east direction, and a few females were stopping on
our nettle patches to lay some eggs.
Definetely a bumper year for them, but when they come in strong numbers so
early, they can end up using all the available nettles (ive seen that
before, no more nettles and hundreds of larvae crawling everywhere to find a
bit of leave to chew on) and the 2nd/3rd generation is usually very low
because of the parasitic flies expansion that follows, and potential lack of
food available.

Dave
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[Paul Cherubini]

On Apr 17, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Dave Clermont wrote:

> the 2nd/3rd generation is usually very low
> because of the parasitic flies expansion that follows,
> and potential lack of food available.

Dave, there will probably be a bumper crop of fresh
monarchs arriving really early this year (early-mid May)
in the northern latitudes like Quebec followed by even
larger 2nd generation numbers in late June and early
July.

But then I'd be concerned that the late summer migratory
generation of monarchs might be deminished
due to a build up of summer parasitic fly and
egg/caterpillar predator bug populations which MAY
follow warm winters and springs.

It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.
If the parasites and predators do not overwhelm the
monarchs later this summer, then the migratory
population could be bigger than anything we have
seen since 2001.

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.