Smithsonian Magazine23d
U.S. Butterflies Are Disappearing at Drastic Rates, With One in Five Gone Since 2000
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 Butterfly populations in the United States have dropped by almost a quarter in the last two decades, according to a new analysis published ...
CBS News26d
Butterfly populations declining rapidly in U.S. with 22% disappearing in 2 decades, study finds
The findings revealed that 33% of butterfly species have experienced significant population declines over the past two decades, with 107 out of the 342 species examined losing more than half of ...
KEYT27d
Butterfly Crisis: U.S. and Central Coast Populations Plummet
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – Butterfly populations across the United States are declining, a trend reflected in the Western monarch butterfly population along the California Coast. A study ...
The Conversation27d
Butterflies declined by 22% in just 2 decades across the US – there are ways you can help save them
We found declines in just about every region of the continental U.S. and across almost all butterfly species. Overall, nearly one-third of the 342 butterfly species we were able to study declined ...
The Washington Post28d
Butterflies in the U.S. are disappearing at a ‘catastrophic’ rate
The study, published Thursday in the journal Science, is the most comprehensive tally of U.S. butterfly populations to date. Nick Haddad, a Michigan State University ecologist who co-wrote the ...