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Natural Bridges State Beach is a 65-acre (26 ha) California state park in Santa Cruz, California, in the United States.The park features a natural bridge across a section of the beach and a eucalyptus grove provides habitat for monarch butterflies.
The Monarch Grove Sanctuary is an urban nature preserve in Pacific Grove, California. It protects the monarch butterflies that winter in Pacific Grove arriving in October. It is maintained by a volunteer crew. [2] About 12–16,000 butterflies stayed at the sanctuary during the 2022-23 winter, making it the fourth largest of its type in ...
Butterfly gardening is a way to create, improve, and maintain habitat for lepidopterans including butterflies, skippers, and moths. [2] Butterflies have four distinct life stages—egg, larva, chrysalis, and adult. In order to support and sustain butterfly populations, an ideal butterfly garden contains habitat for each life stage.
Monarch butterflies cling together for warmth and protection on the branches of a eucalyptus tree near Trancas Canyon Road in Malibu in January 2022. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)
Drizzly or dry, winter days find flocks of local birds happily dining in our gardens. At least, they flock to gardens that offer take-out service, not just mown lawns and trimmed hedges.
Aug. 21—Fourteen-year-old twins Eva and Elizabeth Martina have been on the hunt this summer. They regularly search through the backyard flower garden at their Irwin home for signs of monarch ...
In an effort to mitigate the destruction of the monarch butterflies natural habitat, Monarch Watch has called for volunteers to plant milkweed wherever possible. Milkweed is essential to the life-cycle of the monarch butterfly as they lay their eggs on the underside of the plant's leaves. [ 8 ]
Monarch butterflies migrate south along the East coast in the fall, some remaining to overwinter in South Carolina. The popular migratory monarch butterfly has been listed as endangered, but South ...