In 2020, no monarch butterflies were seen along the Central Coast. This year, nearly 4,000 returned.
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Photo caption: Monarchs during mating season. Photo credit: Alex Guillaume on Unsplash. Article by Heather Wake. Upworthy – October 28, 2022.
Monarch butterflies were declared endangered only a few months ago.
In 2020, the number of monarch butterflies counted at the Pacific Grove Natural History Museum’s Monarch Sanctuary in Monterey, California, was zero. In 2021, only one lone butterfly was seen. Now, in 2022, the museum has announced that a seemingly miraculous 3,823 butterflies were counted during their seasonal migration. And across the entire West Coast, more than 247,000 monarchs have been spotted, a number not seen since 2016. […]
