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U.S. Butterflies Are Disappearing at Drastic Rates, With One in Five Gone Since 2000
A team of more than 30 researchers analyzed 12.6 million butterfly sightings across 76,000 population surveys. They found ...
Butterflies are in trouble. It doesn't take much to help
“You can really make a difference to the local population. Any individual flower you put out it likely to get visited,” said ...
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More eastern monarch butterflies spent the winter in Mexico, but conservation still is needed
The number of monarch butterflies that spent the winter in Mexico doubled this year, giving hope for a species that has faced ...
National Plant a Flower Day: Help pollinators like monarch butterflies with your garden
National Plant a Flower Day is all about celebrating the beauty of flowers. Planting them can also help save pollinators like ...
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Rick Mikula advocated for butterflies, a better world
Mikula often said butterflies symbolize new life, that several cultures use the same word for butterfly as for soul, and that ...
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America’s butterflies are disappearing at a ‘catastrophic’ rate
America’s butterflies are disappearing because of insecticides, climate change and habitat loss, with the number of the winged beauties down 22% since 2000, a new study finds. The first ...
Watch Millions of Butterflies Take Flight in One of the Planet’s Most Magical—and Endangered—Migrations
The high-altitude forest here is the perfect microclimate for the species, and it’s one of the few places in the world where ...
New study finds butterflies are disappearing from the US at a 'catastrophic' rate
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A new study found that butterflies are disappearing from the United States at an alarming rate, with most ...