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

Aaron Weber spoke with Fox News Digital about 'Special Dish' premiering Friday, January 31 on YouTube.

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

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

Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove in San Luis Obispo County had the fourth largest count with 556 monarchs observed in late November, and the Bay Area’s Skywest Golf Course took fifth with 477 ...

A monarch butterfly rests on a fennel at the Monarch Butterfly Garden in Pismo Beach, California. (Photo by Joyce Cory, CC BY 2.0, via Courthouse News) MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The number of monarch ...

Pismo State Beach this year – The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, an international nonprofit dedicated to ...

The Ellwood Mesa Butterfly Grove used to be California's largest wintering site for monarch butterflies, but in 2024, only 30 butterflies were counted.

A winter count of visiting monarch butterflies found a steep drop from previous years, which has scientists worried about the ...

For the past three years, more than 200,000 western monarch butterflies spent their winters ... that over 80,000 people visit sites including Pismo State Beach’s monarch grove per year.