Firstly, it’s important to know that monarch butterflies cannot survive freezing temperatures, so they migrate to warmer climates as the seasons change. In the fall, monarchs in the United States and ...

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I really want to spread the word that we should not give up right now,” said Isis Howard, a conservation biologist with the Xerces Society.

DeWaard hypothesizes that these butterflies might be dispersing from the more crowded regions in their quest to procreate. Migrating monarchs also stop by in the fall, filling up on nectar in the ...

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 hit a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in California this winter, a foreboding sign.

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

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