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05/17/2022 Movement in the Midwest

May 18, 2022 by Team Journey North
The Upper Midwest is a migration hotspot. Monarch activity is picking up in Southern Ontario as well. Along the East Coast, reports are beginning to trickle in from New England. And out West, a new generation of monarchs is moving through California and beyond.

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Published: 05/18/2022

We still haven’t received the official count data from Mexico, but the first 2022 generation of eastern North American monarchs has moved from the southern U.S. into their northern breeding grounds. These monarchs are the offspring of individuals that flew from the north last autumn, spent the winter in Mexico, and then moved back north into the southern parts of the U.S.

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