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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 ...
Monarch butterfly resting on fennel, at the Pismo Butterfly Grove, California Monarchs are protected from the effects of land development , tourism in the 270 California state parks . The activities of visitors to the parks are regulated to include the prohibition of molesting, hunting , disturbing, harming, feeding, touching, teasing, injuring ...
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 ...
Several areas from which populations had been previously extirpated are also being targeted for revegetation and reintroduction of the butterfly. Another population of San Bruno elfin is known to be established in Montara , on coastal bluffs about 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of San Bruno Mountain (Alling, 1986).
Thirty years ago, there were millions of western monarch butterflies in California. Last winter, volunteers counted just 2,000.
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Callophrys dumetorum, te bramble hairstreak [1] or lotus hairstreak, [2] is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the United States in coastal California and rarely in inland California. Subspecies C. d. oregonensis is known as the Oregon green hairstreak. [3]