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Is This Possible? A Monarch in February? - Danaus plexippus
Copyright © 2009 Cathy Wilson

Is This Possible? A Monarch in February? - Danaus plexippus
Sanibel Island, Lee County, Florida, USA
February 4, 2009
It rained yesterday. This morning was clear and sunny. I photographed this butterfly as it briefly rested on a Sea Grape. Notice that the wing is not fully expanded. Where would this insect have come from so early in the year?
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Contributed by Cathy Wilson on 4 February, 2009 - 8:33pm
Last updated 5 February, 2009 - 2:36pm

Florida rocks
Hi Cathy. We are lucky here in FL to have lots of insects year round. I see monarch caterpillars, chrysalis and adults all year.
… Matt Edmonds, 5 February, 2009 - 7:35am login or register to post comments

 
No kidding?!
Thanks for helping me on that, Matt. I feel sorry for that monarch, today. It's reaaaally chilly this morning.
… Cathy Wilson, 5 February, 2009 - 8:48am login or register to post comments

 
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I know it's COOOOOOOOOOOLD today!!!! Tonight will be a hard freeze in central FL. I hate global warming!!!
… Matt Edmonds, 5 February, 2009 - 9:29am login or register to post comments

 
Do I dectect Global Warming Heresy? ;-D
We're headed back to NW Ohio after a month here in FLA. It's been brutally cold this winter. I wonder if you follow the Best Science Blog winner for 2009 - Watts Up With That. Very reasoned approach to the hysteria about (ahem) "Climate Change".

Went to your website. Very very cool. Thanks again for the info.
… Cathy Wilson, 5 February, 2009 - 9:53am login or register to post comments

 
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Global warming doesn't just make it hotter it displaces the weather. Which is a weird concept seeing as its called Global warming not Global displacement.
… Cody R. Hough, 5 February, 2009 - 12:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Well . . wish I could control the distrubution ;0)
Cody - I'll bet you'd agree with me that it'd be nice to steer some of that 'displacement' to our neck of the woods in Michigan/Ohio.
… Cathy Wilson, 5 February, 2009 - 1:04pm login or register to post comments

 
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I think global warming has taught us (more than any other phenomenon) that we can be a self-loathing, narcissistic animal.
The Earth has been far warmer and far colder in the past. Yet now as Earths’ climate fluctuates, as it should, it’s suddenly our fault and everyone and everything is going to die.
Sorry, but Earth is beautiful beyond anyone’s wildest imagination and it will be this way for at least another billion years. Change is normal.
Back to bugs.
… Matt Edmonds, 5 February, 2009 - 2:32pm login or register to post comments

 
Ditto, Matt
I hope to live long enough to see some serious crow-eating by some seriously mistaken promoters of this scam.
… Cathy Wilson, 5 February, 2009 - 3:41pm login or register to post comments

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