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Butterfly populations declining rapidly in U.S. with 22% disappearing in 2 decades, study finds
The findings revealed that 33% of butterfly species have experienced significant population declines over the past two decades, with 107 out of the 342 species examined losing more than half of ...
KEYT24d
Butterfly Crisis: U.S. and Central Coast Populations Plummet
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – Butterfly populations across the United States are declining, a trend reflected in the Western monarch butterfly population along the California Coast. A study ...
The Conversation25d
Butterflies declined by 22% in just 2 decades across the US – there are ways you can help save them
We found declines in just about every region of the continental U.S. and across almost all butterfly species. Overall, nearly one-third of the 342 butterfly species we were able to study declined ...
National Geographic news25d
1 in 5 butterflies in the U.S. have disappeared in the last 20 years
Researchers compiled data on more than five hundred butterfly species across the United States from 2000 to 2020. Some species are faring better than others, but overall, butterfly numbers dropped ...
The New York Times25d
See How Butterflies Are Surviving, or Not, Near You
Still, researchers didn’t have enough data to include some of the most imperiled butterfly species, which probably experienced some of the steepest declines. And the data was quite likely biased ...
New Atlas28d
Image of prototype XB-1 caught breaking the sound barrier
In this way, we can see the heat rising off a human arm, the turbulence of a gun discharge, or the air being pushed by a butterfly's ... beam and the necessary background. Then around 2000 ...