monarchs making more monarchs mating

jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
edited February 17, 2007 in Wildlife
the monarchs all get together,no real problem with predictors [they are poisonous-they eat milkweed] :cry low light and dif camera
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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited February 14, 2007
    so the trees are full of them
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  • saurorasaurora Registered Users Posts: 4,320 Major grins
    edited February 14, 2007
    Neat shots Jeff.....where and when were these taken????
  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited February 14, 2007
    So the mating is done by a male flying along and just grabs another and most of the time falls to the ground .They fight a little or a lot
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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited February 14, 2007
    They fight a little or a lot some times a male gets another male eek7.gif caption Tom eek7.gif is that you ne_nau.gif let me go Bill this is the third time now go get a playboy and or a butterfly book or no little Bills rolleyes1.gif know what I mean mwink.gif
    Jeff W

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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited February 14, 2007
    so Tom and Bill swap notes and go and try again rolleyes1.gifdeal.gif :ivar as a side note if they can not tell male from female I just loved the folks that wasted my time with look you see the spots on the tail eek7.gifheadscratch.gif no they do not know one from another but you do headscratch.gifclap.gif how about a spot on your tail by my boot ne_nau.gifwings.gif :ivar
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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited February 14, 2007
    If he gets luckymwink.gif [sorry for the pun ] and if the female is of the mood then they fly away .Sometimes the female has mated a few times already and will not go along i.e. makes it very hard for the male to pick them up and fly away . If they both are of one mind then it's back to the trees for the egg thing :ivar . Monarchs fly 1000's of miles to warmer climates for the winter mating ,I think they are really so calif kind of folks and hate snow and close to 0 weather [that is just a guess] :D
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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited February 14, 2007
    this is what the tree thing looks like --they will spend a lot of time with mating
    Jeff W

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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited February 14, 2007
    and the calif group thing ah warm weather thumb.gifbowdown.gif :ivar so that's what making monarchs is all about
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited February 15, 2007
    Excellent set Jeff thumb.gif
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  • dbaker1221dbaker1221 Registered Users Posts: 4,482 Major grins
    edited February 15, 2007
    terrific seriesclap.gif i have not seen that many monarchs in a long time
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  • Osprey WhispererOsprey Whisperer Registered Users Posts: 3,803 Major grins
    edited February 15, 2007
    Neat series Jeff. thumb.gifthumb.gif Well done.
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  • raptorcaptorraptorcaptor Registered Users Posts: 3,968 Major grins
    edited February 15, 2007
    Great series Jeff! thumb.gif Did you make it to Salton sea?
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  • JohnDCJohnDC Registered Users Posts: 379 Major grins
    edited February 15, 2007
    Great shots, Jeff. Hard to get the lighting that good in the Eucalyptus groves--the butterfly colors really stand out.
  • AngeloAngelo Super Moderators Posts: 8,937 moderator
    edited February 16, 2007
    One word... WOW!!!

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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited February 17, 2007
    You've been after shots like that for awhile, Congrats on a good job !! thumb.gif

    Feeling better I hope ?? :D
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