California’s Brutal Storms May Have Killed Over Half Its Monarch Butterflies
Western monarchs spend their winters clustered in trees along the California coast. Storms brought high winds and heavy precipitation to the region in December, damaging trees and killing butterflies. Photo: Nic Coury (AP)California has been enduring a winter of wild weather, and it’s not just humans that have suffered for it. A new count of monarchsin the state turned up a disturbing low number of the endangered butterflies. Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency this week as heavy snowfall blanketed the…