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Saturday, October 13, 2007

Monarch Butterfly Migration

See this animation to follow the butterfly migration towards Mexico!

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The data is interesting!

Mr. Forde

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

In the fall monarch butterflies migrate to warmer climates for the winter. They head to the Californian coast or to Mexico.
Monarch butterflies know when fall is here. They adapt bye putting on coats. While we adapt by putting on a sweater. Temperatures below 50°F make it hard for them to fly. Below 40°F can paralyze them.
Janay Parrotts Big brother Karlton

Principals' Partnership said...

This is a great comment!

Keep posting so we can learn more!

Mr. Forde :-)

Anonymous said...

this is kinda off topic on what we are studying. what does this have to do with the deer dielma.
Stephanie Samaranayake

Jim Forde said...

Hi Steph,

From time to time I will post additional things that relate to science simply to increase our overall discussion.

I hope you like following the butterfly migration!

MR. F :-)

Anonymous said...

hey mr. F are you going to right to that enviorment group about the invasive species(green crab)that we found on the beach in our field trip??
Steph S

Jim Forde said...

Hi Steph,

I think I will talk to Soundwaters about that first.

Mr. F :-)

Anonymous said...

ok. what do you think they are going to do about it? its not like they can go crab hunting and grab all the green crabs in the long island sound.

Steph S

Jim Forde said...

Hey Steph,

I think it would be difficult to eradicate the asian crabs but they do study this problem and may have ways to reduce their numbers.

I also learned that their is a database, called NEMESIS — National Exotic Marine and Estuarine Information System which tries to summarize the invasion history, distribution, biology, ecology and impacts of invaders.

Maybe Soundwaters will send invasive species info to this organization to coordinate the collection of data on this topic?

Mr. F :-)