While analyzing the mountains of data harvested from three decades of butterfly counting in the Midwest, a Michigan State University Ph.D. candidate had seen enough studies to be braced for bad news.
The annual Big Butterfly Count is back for another year, taking place from Friday 18 July to Sunday 10 August 2025. But what is it, and how can we get involved? Here’s what you need to know.
The final tallies are in, and it’s been another good year for monarch butterflies in California. In total, 335,479 of the important pollinators were counted across 272 overwintering spots across the ...
PISMO BEACH, Calif. – On Thursday, invertebrate conservation group the Xerxes Society released the results of their 28th annual Western Monarch Butterfly Count and recorded the second lowest ...