This winter’s annual Western Monarch Count was the third lowest on record. Scientists say habitat loss, climate change and ...

Western Monarch Day exists because one of North America’s most visible migrations nearly vanished without ever making ...

The latest count of western monarch butterfly populations is the third-lowest yet, after 2024 and 2020.

The all-time lowest population size in Pismo Beach was reported in 2020, when only 199 butterflies were counted at the ...

The most unsettling declines aren't sudden collapses but slow thinnings that force us to realize, too late, that ...

The California State Parks Foundation is urging the public to help track western monarch butterflies during California Biodiversity Day, which runs from September 6-14. The western monarch population ...

The Xerces Society has released new results from its annual Western Monarch Count, showing that monarch butterfly numbers remain low at overwintering sites across California, including Pismo Beach.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The annual Western Monarch Count observed a ...

PISMO BEACH, Calif. - Historically low numbers of western monarch butterflies visited the Central Coast this winter. This data comes as the butterfly is under consideration for protection under the ...

The results of the 28 th annual mid-season Western Monarch Count have been released: only 9,119 of the butterflies were counted during the time the overwintering population is usually at its peak.