The Ellwood Mesa Butterfly Grove used to be California's largest wintering site for monarch butterflies, but in 2024, only 30 butterflies were counted.
Cottage gardens have a timeless appeal, and even more so in 2025 with the trend towards an informal, lived-in look. Here’s how to move away from pristine, clipped gardens to more romantic ones ...
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.
Grant funding from BIL and IRA, Biden’s signature climate laws, has been frozen. “We’re in a biodiversity meltdown,” says butterfly scientist Stu Weiss. “We don’t have time for these kinds of delays.” ...