The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking steps to list monarch butterflies as threatened species and designate seven ...

Scientists are grappling with a stark population decline of the western monarch butterfly after the species’ numbers hit a ...

Once, millions of monarchs wintered in California. But climate change, habitat loss, widespread pesticide use and disease ...

The number of monarch butterflies in California is in sharp decline this year. This is the second-lowest population recording ...

The count estimated a winter population of 9,119 monarchs this year as climate change, habitat loss, pesticides and disease ...

The number of monarch butterflies spending winter in the western U.S. dropped dramatically this year, despite moves to extend ...

The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in California this winter, a foreboding sign for the future of the beloved ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Western monarch butterfly population in California has dropped to fewer than 10,000, marking the second-lowest count since 1997. This decline, attributed to ...

This winter, volunteers from the Xerces Society, a nonprofit environmental group, tallied just 9,119 western monarchs — a ...

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its second-lowest mark in ...

In 2023, more than 16,000 butterflies were counted at one local grove. The most recent count was a tiny fraction of that.