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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 ...
Chasing monarchs: Migrating with the butterflies of passage. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300203875. Journals. Brower, Lincoln (1977). "Monarch Migration". Natural History. 85 (6): 41–53. Reports. The Legal Status of the Monarch Butterfly in California (Report). International Environmental Law Project and the Xerces Society. 2012.
For the record: 1:10 p.m. Oct. 30, 2023: An earlier version of this article stated that the California Bumble Bee Atlas project is a Xerces-supported group in Riverside.The project, based in ...
Up to 150,000 butterflies migrate up to 2,000 miles (3,200 km) to the park to escape the cold weather of winter in the northwestern United States and Canada. [2] [6] The city of Santa Cruz holds an annual festival to mark the return of the butterflies. [6] Monarchs settle in groves along the coasts of California and Baja California. At Natural ...
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Volunteers who visited sites in California and Arizona around Thanksgiving tallied more than 230,000 butterflies, compared to 330,000 in 2022, according to the Xerces Society, an environmental nonprofit that focuses on the conservation of invertebrates.
The number of western monarch butterflies overwintering in California dropped by 30% last year, likely due to how wet it was, researchers said Tuesday. Volunteers who visited sites in California ...
One of the best-known wintering places is the Monarch Grove Sanctuary, a city-owned site in the coastal city of Pacific Grove, where last year no monarch butterflies showed up. The city 70 miles ...