California’s final monarch butterfly count is in, and it’s even better than last year

The final tallies are in, and it’s been another good year for monarch butterflies in California. In total, 335,479 of the important pollinators were counted across 272 overwintering spots across the state from Nov. 12 through Dec. 4, according to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, an international nonprofit organization that organizes the counts annually. That’s a notable jump from 2021, when 247,237 were counted in California, and 2020, when 1,899 were counted, according to the Xerces Society’s data. “We can all celebrate this tally,” said Emma Pelton ...
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