California has 50x times more monarch butterflies than last year

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Tens of thousands of monarch butterflies are flocking to the California coast for the winter, filling tree branches with fluttering orange wings — a remarkable rebound from years of near-extinction.

"We were pretty concerned last year that we were potentially facing a reality where there would no longer be monarch butterflies in the Western US," Sarina Jepsen, director of the endangered species program at the Xerces Society, told Insider.

So far this year, however, volunteers have counted more than 100,000 monarch butterflies. That tally is expected to grow as volunteers continue counting through December 5. The Xerces Society will publish its final report in January.

"We're really happy about those numbers," Jepsen said. Still, she added, "this is not yet recovery of the Western monarch population."

https://www.businessinsider.com/california-monarch-butterflies-make-promising-puzzling-rebound-2021-12

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Oliver Sykes and Amy Lee, eat your heart out

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"So far this year, however, volunteers have counted more than 100,000 monarch butterflies. That tally is expected to grow as volunteers continue counting through December 5. The Xerces Society will publish its final report in January."

How do they know they're not counting the same ones? 

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2 hours ago, Glamourpuss said:

"So far this year, however, volunteers have counted more than 100,000 monarch butterflies. That tally is expected to grow as volunteers continue counting through December 5. The Xerces Society will publish its final report in January."

How do they know they're not counting the same ones? 

Well Id certainly hope they have a more sophistocated tracking system than ppl randomly going out and counting how many they see 

 

Otherwise:

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Oh that's wonderful! I mean, still a scary time for them, but good news for sure.

I have milkweed planted in my garden and I've actually hand-raised some butterflies in the house a few years to help them along. It's amazing to see them grow