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.

Not that long ago, monarch butterflies used to migrate in droves. However, over the last few decades, the number of these ...

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

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

Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish ...

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