Huge Fall Anticipated in Monarch Butterfly Population Visiting Mexico This Winter Pauline Beart - FrenchTribune
go to original August 18, 2013

Is Weather Killing Butterflies? Angella Morehouse, a biologist with the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission, discusses possible causes for a decline in butterfly populations across America's Midwest. (StormMaster21)

While some 350 million monarch butterflies, on an average, are observed visiting Mexico in winters, this winter could see only around 60 million of them. The same, as per a recent report, has concerned the Mexican government as well as the World Wildlife Fund, which released the official count.

The difference in count stands at more than 80%, the report said. Thus, it is being wondered by experts if monarchs could return from the huge decline in their population and how.

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