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Gardening classes, plant sales and flower shows are blooming in Southern California through March 2022.

News briefs and calendar items, this week from Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa and Fountain Valley.

More than 200,000 monarch butterflies have made it to California for the winter, a dramatic upsurge from the 2,000 that were counted last year.

A local team of scientists and monarch butterfly monitors were scheduled early this morning to count overwintering monarchs at traditional sites.

To beekeep or not to beekeep? That was the question posed recently to the City Council in Mission ...

Butterfly fans, take a breath. I know it’s officially spring and we’re all pounding on nursery doors, anxious to plant some California native milkweed to help the endangered Western monarch butterfly stay afloat since, yes, milkweed is the only thing its caterpillars will eat and nonnative varieties appear to be hastening its demise. But here’s the thing: native milkweeds are still slowly coming back to life. Native milkweeds — especially narrow-leaf milkweed, the most prominent vari...

This is not a drill. California is poised to lose the Western monarch butterfly and its mysterious annual migration from the continent’s Western regions to the coastal areas between Baja and Mendocino. The list for blame is long — habitat destruction, insecticides, herbicides and, yes, good intentions, because if you’ve ever planted a showy orange and red milkweed in Southern California with the goal of helping the monarch, consider yourself part of the problem. So why should we care? Fi...

Print This is not a drill. California is poised to lose the Western monarch butterfly and its mysterious annual migration from the continent’s Western regions to the coastal areas between Baja and Mendocino. The list for blame is long — habitat destruction, insecticides, herbicides and, yes, good intentions, because if you’ve ever planted a showy orange milkweed in Southern California with the goal of helping the monarch, consider yourself part of the problem. So why should we care? Firs...