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Winged Wonders: Solving the Monarch Migration Mystery
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Meeg Pincus
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For decades, as the monarch butterflies swooped through every year like clockwork, people from Canada to the United States to Mexico wondered, Where do they go? In 1976 the world learned the answer: after migrating thousands of miles, the monarchs roost by the millions in an oyamel grove in Central Mexicos mountains. But who solved this mystery? Was it the scientist or the American adventurer? The citizen scientists or the teacher or his students? Winged Wonders shows that the mystery could only be solved when they all worked as a team--and reminds readers that theres another monarch mystery today, one that we all must work together to solve.

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For

centuries,

and

down

North

America,

every

year

brou

ght

mystery.

Monarch butterflies swooped in for a spell, like
clockwork, from somewhere beyondthen
disappeared as curiously as they came.

Where

they

go?

People pondered from southern Canada...

... through the middle of the United States

... and all the way to central Mexico.

In 1976, the world finally learned the answer...
with a groundbreaking discovery.

A one-of-a-kind insect journey.
A remote roosting place.
A small speck on the map
where millions of monarchs are drawn like magnets each winter.

The

Great

Monarch

Migration,

the news stories called it.

So, who solved this age-old mystery?

Who tracked these winged wonders from
one end of the continent to the other?

Who found their secret roosting place,
a marvel of nature?

Was

Fred,

the

Canadian

scientist,

who spent 30 years studying
the monarch mystery from his
university lab,

who drove through the United States with
Norah, his research-partner wife, like
detectives, trying to track the cagey creatures
migration from Canada southward,

who tagged monarchs fragile wingsfirst with paint
that faded, then with labels that plopped to the ground
when wetand finally with price tags that stuck?

Was

Norah,

master

organizer

the

monarch

material

they

collected,

who placed ads in newspapers near and far, seeking ordinary
people to help by tagging monarch wings in their hometowns,

who wrote newsletters and kept in
touch with all those volunteers,

who logged and mapped every tidbit
of information they sent in to the lab?

Was

those

dozens

(then

hundr

eds,

then

thousands)

science

teachers,

back

yard

gardeners,

and

other

curious

souls

who answered Norahs ads
and became citizen scientists,

who gently caught, tagged, and
released the delicate, dancing insects

to help solve the migration mystery?

Was

Ken,

the

American

adventurer,

who spotted Norahs ad in a Mexico City
newspaper while visiting there,

who called her in Canada and
agreed to follow the monarchs
through Mexico, where he didnt
speak the language,

who bumped along winding roads
with his newlywed wife, Catalina,
for nearly two years, trying to track
the butterflies twisting trail?

Was

the

villagers

and

farmers

central

Mexico,

who directed the couple to look
higher, higherup into the thin air
of the volcanic mountains and their
oyamel tree groves,

who for generations welcomed the
monarchs as soaring spirits during
autumn Da de los Muertos celebrations,

who held the whispered whereabouts
of their winter roosting place?

Was

Cata

lina,

born

and

raised

Mexico,

who

tro

duced

Ken

her

beloved

monarchs,

who spoke with the locals in her
Spanish dialect to guide their search,

who kept 40 notebooks of meticulous monarch data,

who first crunched through early-morning snow, high in the
Sierra Madre mountains, into an oyamel grove, and exclaimed...

I see them! I see them! Up here!?

Was

Jim,

the

Ame

rican

science

teach

er,

who, with his students, attached
teeny tags to tiny wings,

who caught and tagged the very monarch
in a Minnesota goldenrod field that Fred
later found among millions in a Mexican
oyamel grove,

who gave Fred the proof he neededthat one teeny tagto
announce the discovery of The Great Monarch Migration?

YES. THE ANSWER IS YES.

All of themthe scientists, the citizen scientists, the regular
folks along the wayplayed a part in this discovery.

Each person, in small ways or large, helped
answer that centuries-old question:

WHERE DO THEY GO?

And now we know...

Each year, millions of monarchs fly the same path
generation after generation
from southern Canada, through the United States,
to roost for the winter in central Mexicos mountains.
Then they journey north again
feasting on milkweed plants all along the way.

However...

Today, theres a new burning monarch
question to be answered:

How

will

they

survive

Monarchs numbers have plummeted since the 1976
discovery. From at least a billion down to millions
a handful now to each hundred then.

Chemical sprays destroy their milkweed plants.
Logging and farming threaten their oyamel groves.
Pollution disrupts the air and weather for their flights.

So, who can make a difference for the monarchs today?
Who can preserve their landing spots and airstreams?
Who can keep them alive?

The

answer

actually

stery

all.

MORE ABOUT the MONARCH MIGRATION DISCOVERY

It was in the August 1976 issue of National Geographic magazine that Dr. Fred Urquhart revealed his finding of a single monarch butterfly in Michoacn, Mexico, that marked a discovery. Citizen scientists Ken Brugger and Catalina Aguado Brugger had led Fred and Norah Urquhart into that oyamel grove, a year after the younger couple found the overwintering site with the Urquharts guidance. A tree branch heavy with monarchs snapped and fell right in front of Fred, who then spotted that tagged monarch among millions of flapping wings. It turned out that the tag had been affixed to that monarch wing by high school science teacher Jim Gilbert, and two of his students, in Minnesota.

That single monarch provided the proof that Fred and Norah had sought for over three decades, proof of the monarch butterflies cross-continental, multi-generation migrationone of the longest insect migrations on Earth. Without each persons individual contributionsfrom Catalinas Spanish and Kens drive, to the Mexican locals long-held knowledge, to the thousands of citizen scientists tagging effortsthe remarkable route of The Great Monarch Migration might still be a mystery to the wider world. Its also important to note that history depends on who tells the storyMexican poet and environmentalist Homero Aridjis asks: Did the white scientists really discover the wintering sites that people in Southern Mexico knew about for centuries? What do you think?

Plenty of mystery continues to surround these delicate but durable insects. Scientists across the continent still study the unpredictable, fluctuating numbers of monarchs migrating each yearin the Great Migration from Canada to Mexico as well as in shorter migrations on the U.S. east and west coasts. Researchers continue to learn more about just how these brilliant bugs make their epic trek.

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