Western monarchs are returning to Santa Cruz. Residents and visitors can see the popular orange and black butterflies clustering in eucalyptus groves at Lighthouse Field and Natural Bridges state beaches, as well as at Moran Lake Park.
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Researchers have announced that the Monarch butterfly population has continued to grow for the second year in a row. Here's how you can help the progress.
The population of western monarch butterflies reached its highest numbers since the year 2000, with more than 335,000 butterflies counted at their California and Arizona overwintering sites during the 26th annual Thanksgiving Western Monarch Count. “We can all celebrate this tally,” Emma Pelton, a conservation biologist at the Xerces Society and western monarch lead said in […]
The International Monarch Monitoring Blitz has begun. It documents migratory monarch butterfly sightings, and now that the butterfly is endangered, it’s more important than ever.