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

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

A winter count of visiting monarch butterflies found a steep drop from previous years, which has scientists worried about the ...

Just over 9,000 monarchs were counted in California last winter, the second lowest ever since the annual count began in 1997 ...

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

The natural phenomenon of the iconic monarch butterflies migrating south for the winter is a fascinating one - and it's one ...

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

Hundreds of volunteers and partners participated in the 28th annual Western Monarch Count by attempting to identify all of ...

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

The count of 9,119 butterflies this winter is a sharp decline from 200,000 reported in the past three years, but slightly up from 2,000 monarch reported in 2020.