Newly released data shows that the number of monarch butterflies migrating to California this winter is near-record low. "We ...

The Western population of the monarch butterfly hit a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in California this ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States dropped dramatically this year even as ...

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

For the past three years, more than 200,000 western monarch butterflies spent their winters along the California coast — huddling together in tall tree groves, finding respite from the wind from ...