Monarch butterfly population at critically low levels in California
The population of monarch butterflies overwintering in California remains at critically low levels for a second straight year, an environmental group announced Thursday.In its annual survey, the Xerces Society’s count of the orange-and-black insects was at about 29,000 butterflies. That’s not much different than last year’s tally, when an all-time low of about 27,000 monarchs were counted. (Although this is 2,000 more […]
