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

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.

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

The author writes, “The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western US has dropped to its second-lowest ...

GILGER: And there at the desert Botanical Garden, you've been working for a long time to preserve the monarch butterfly here in Arizona. And it's been like a decade since the initial petition to make ...

“It’s scary because you don’t want to lose that phenomenon.” Western monarch butterflies migrate from Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah and inland California to coastal ...

11, 2024 The butterfly’s Western population has plummeted ... gathers to pass winter before fanning out across the West from Arizona to Idaho in spring. The Eastern monarch population ...