Monarch butterfly count yields worrisome finding
This winter, volunteers from the Xerces Society, a nonprofit environmental group, tallied just 9,119 western monarchs — a ...
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California's monarch butterfly population plummets
The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in ...
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Western Monarch Butterfly count shows second lowest visiting population since recording began
On Thursday, invertebrate conservation group the Xerxes Society released the results of their 28th annual Western Monarch Butterfly ...
Monarch butterfly count plummets in SLO County. ‘Feels like a punch to the heart’
In 2023, more than 16,000 butterflies were counted at one local grove. The most recent count was a tiny fraction of that.
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Monarch butterfly numbers hit near record low in California. Here's why that matters
Just over 9,000 monarchs were counted in California last winter, the second lowest ever since the annual count began in 1997 ...