Every November, volunteers fan out along the California coast to count western monarch butterflies clustered in eucalyptus ...
The monarch butterfly, perhaps the most recognizable butterfly in North America, is in trouble: since the mid-1990s, their population has declined 90 percent from its 20-year average, and their ...
Amid the eucalyptus groves at Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz, local bug enthusiast Sasha Hernandez squinted through the draping green leaves, searching for flashes of black and orange — the ...
On a misty Friday morning in November, with dawn’s last warm hues clinging to the gloomy clouds above, the Pacific Grove ...
A monarch butterfly is ready to emerge from its chrysalis in the Kalispell garden of one of landscaper Kathy Ross' clients last August. (Photo by Kathy Ross) A monarch butterfly caterpillar, about two ...