The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States dropped dramatically this year even as ...
This winter, volunteers from the Xerces Society, a nonprofit environmental group, tallied just 9,119 western monarchs — a ...
Monarch butterflies are important culturally and ecologically across North America. Generations have watched in wonder as yellow-and-black striped caterpillars fold into green-and-gold chrysalises and ...
In 2023, more than 16,000 butterflies were counted at one local grove. The most recent count was a tiny fraction of that.