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The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History reports a significant decline in monarch butterfly numbers, raising concerns among scientists.

As of Thursday, State Parks had counted only 406 butterflies in the Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove — which is an unusually low number even this early in the season.

Large numbers of monarch butterflies have returned to the Ellwood Monarch Butterfly Grove in Goleta. (Mike Eliason photo) Thousands of monarch butterflies can now be seen in Ellwood Mesa in Goleta ...

PACIFIC GROVE — Monarch butterfly numbers are down this year entering prime counting season, but experts aren’t panicking yet. “Butterfly populations are bouncy,” said Isis Howard, an ...

The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History reports a significant decline in monarch butterfly numbers, raising concerns among scientists.

FILE - Thousands of monarch butterflies gather in the eucalyptus trees at the Pismo State Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove as viewed on Jan. 17, 2018, in Pismo Beach, Calif.

The Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove is one of five in the state that routinely records 10,000 or more of the butterflies in residence.

A monarch butterfly suns itself on a eucalyptus branch in the Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove on Dec. 9, 2022. More than 129,000 western monarch butterflies were counted in San Luis Obispo ...

A Cottage Grove man raises — and tracks — monarch butterflies from eggs on milkweed leaves to flights to Mexico Wojciech Poreba collects monarch eggs from milkweed plants along parks and ...

Butterflies sit on a pine tree at Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific Grove, Calif. Researchers say that the population of western monarch butterflies is well below what it used to be. One of the ...