Zeiss
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Country: United States
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Post by Zeiss on Mar 20, 2019 6:19:18 GMT
I'm not sure how many of you are from southern California, but seeing the Vanessa cardui migration last week en mass was the first butterfly migration I have seen/noticed, and I have lived here my whole life! Seeing hundreds fly by me on campus was cool. Anyone else have migration stories to share?
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Post by nomad on Mar 20, 2019 16:35:29 GMT
It is always nice to see Migration in action, and Vanessa cardui is a very powerful flyer that can cover very long distances. A distant memory was when I was a wee lad, is sitting on the beach after collecting butterflies on the undercliff at Lulworth Cove, Dorset, England and watching a steady progression of what I knew then as Large and Small or Cabbage Whites, Pieris brassicae and rapae coming from the sea =English Channel.
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Post by wollastoni on Mar 20, 2019 22:56:56 GMT
About 10/15 years ago, there was a Vanessa cardui massive migration in Western Europe too.
It happens every 20/30 years.
I met it in Brittany and it was very impressive with one cardui every meter.... millions of them !
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