SF News California’s Monarch Butterfly Population Plummets to Second-Lowest Ever in Latest Annual Count The recently completed 2024 California monarch butterfly count showed just over 9,000 of the winged critters returning to the state, which is a big concern, considering there were more than 200,000 of them in the previous year’s count.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Monarch Butterfly Population Down Again In CA An earthquake with a preliminary 4.9M struck off the Eureka coast this a.m.; a house fire in the East Bay left two people seriously injured; and California's monarch butterfly population appears to be down 30% over last year.
SF News Second Consecutive Monarch Butterfly Population Rebound Has Butterfly Fans Just Thrilled While the migrating monarch butterfly population is still down 80% over the last 30 years, it’s estimated there are nearly 100,000 more of the winged critters in California right now compared to their numbers in last year’s annual trek.
SF News Monarch Butterfly Population Sees Thousand-Fold Increase, Likely Thanks to Drought A silver lining of the drought may be that the Monarch butterflies are exploding back after a near-extinction event last year, with one central California beach recording a 3,500% increase in the winged critters.
SF News Butterfly Swarm Heading For NorCal Within Days An unusually large population of migrating painted lady butterflies has been swarming over the Los Angeles area in recent days, and they're headed our direction.
SF News S.F. Considers Banning Butterflies A city commission is mulling a new law that would ban letting butterflies free that might cause harm to wild butterflies. Just to be clear, it's a ban on the release of commercially
Arts & Entertainment Check Out This Gorgeous Cluster Of Monarch Butterflies Shot at Ardenwood Farms in Fremont, Flickr user sunmallia captured this group of monarch butterflies. "It took me a long while to really see them as they look like a clump of dead
misc Send Us Your Pics: Butterfly Swarm Did you know the Bay Area is under siege right now? It's true. The invader? Thousands and thousands of pudy butterflies. Why, just today we received an urgent message from SFist Deborah N
