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Monarch butterfly sightings may be sparser than usual in the U.S. and Canada following a drastic spike in populations wintering in Mexico, research...

Li Jianguo/Xinhua via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Monarch butterfly sightings may be sparser than usual in the U.S. and Canada following a drastic drop in populations wintering in Mexico, researchers told ABC News. The annual census of the number of monarchs that winter in Central Mexico showed that the population decreased "precipitously," the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, which conducts the research alongside the World Wildlife Fund-Mexico, announced on Wednesday. T...

Li Jianguo/Xinhua via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Monarch butterfly sightings may be sparser than usual in the U.S. and Canada following a drastic drop in populations wintering in Mexico, researchers told ABC News. The annual census of the number of monarchs that winter in Central Mexico showed that the population decreased "precipitously," the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, which conducts the research alongside the World Wildlife Fund-Mexico, announced on Wednesday. T...

Li Jianguo/Xinhua via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Monarch butterfly sightings may be sparser than usual in the U.S. and Canada following a drastic drop in

Li Jianguo/Xinhua via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Monarch butterfly sightings may be sparser than usual in the U.S. and Canada following a drastic drop in populations wintering in Mexico, researchers told ABC News. The annual census of the number of m...

The roosting population size fell to 2.2 acres this winter, the second smallest since scientists began tracking in this manner in the early 1990s and down from a peak of 45 acres in the mid-1990s.

Farmers around the Central Valley are hearing rumblings that environmental groups could file a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for an emergency endangered listing for monarch butterflies. 

It takes a lot of nerve to do research and publish findings that are contrary to long-standing shared viewpoints in any field.  Kudos to those mentioned above who have done so.  We can only hope that the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) follow the letter of…

Scientists say roosting monarchs took up 2.2 acres of Mexican fir forests this winter. That's the second smallest overwintering population on the books.

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 4 February 2024 – 1000 words/5 minutes When we say that “science is never settled”, we mean that there are always new things to be discovered, new insights to be gained, new ways of looking at the same old things and thus, there will be disagreements, challenges to the…