Monarch butterfly population in Western U.S. nears record 30-year low. Here's what to know.
The number of monarch butterflies spending winter in the western U.S. dropped dramatically this year, despite moves to extend ...
Decoding a butterfly's travel map: Scientists find globetrotting not in genes
Painted lady butterflies are world travelers. The ones we encounter in Europe fly from Africa to Sweden, ultimately returning ...
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Monarch butterflies face steep decline in the Western U.S.
Monarch butterflies in the western U.S. have dropped to just 9,119 this year. In 2023, the count was 233,394, meaning a 96% decline.
Monarch butterflies have declined 80% or more in recent decades. Here's how to help
Thogmartin and other researchers have evaluated more than 200 scenarios for restoring greater than 1.3 billion stems of ...
Dramatic drop in monarch butterfly count nears record 30-year low
This year the organization counted 9,119 monarchs, the second-lowest total since tracking began in 1997. The organization has ...
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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 ...
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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Why monarch butterflies could be listed as a threatened species | Word from the Smokies
Before National Geographic published its famous August 1976 cover story detailing the search for the monarch butterfly’s wintering ... A 2,000-mile migration was thought to be a “foolish ...