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

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

A butterfly sits on a leaf at Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific Grove on Nov. 10, 2021. Photo by Nic Coury, AP Photo For the past three years, more than 200,000 western monarch butterflies spent ...

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

Moreno estimates that over 80,000 people visit sites including Pismo State Beach’s monarch grove per year. California lawmakers have passed laws to protect the species: A decade ago, the state ...

King Charles III released a statement Saturday paying tribute to victims of a plane crash in Washington D.C. that killed 67 people Wednesday.

In the fall and winter, thousands of monarch butterflies flutter into the area's milkweed plants and eucalyptus trees (in 2016, an estimated 8,000 butterflies overwintered here). The state beach ...