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Analysis of Field Data for the 1988 Monarch Butterfly Migration in Resaca and Calhoun, Georgia


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Mean Vanishing bearing for Danaus plexippus in Southeast Winds:  Data used in Calculations

September 26 - October 2, 1988 observations of the Danaus plexippus migration in Resaca and Calhoun, Georgia


Date 

Table

Number of
Obsevations

Field Data
Code Numbers

Reasons for
Exclusion


Sept.  26

         

7

36 - 39, 42 - 44

NA

27

II       5

46, 57, 60, 61, 68,

NA
      28 III              9 (10)

98, 103, 105, 106, 111, 112, 118, 124, 131, 133

Flying above the inversion.
29 IV      18 

161- 168, 170, 172, 174, 178 - 181, 190, 191, 193

NA

30 V       26 

205 - 216, 219, 220, 222 - 224, 227 - 229, 231, 232 - 234, 236, 237

NA

Oct.    1 VI      10 

242, 244 -246, 249, 250 - 254

NA
2 VII      -

-

NA

Total 

7   

      75      

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Data for E winds

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Data for S winds


Any observations hi-lighted in red were excluded from calculations for reasons given in column 5.