{"id":25682,"date":"2019-01-07T14:12:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T22:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25682"},"modified":"2019-01-07T14:12:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T22:12:35","slug":"missing-monarch-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/missing-monarch-butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Monarch Butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/pgrobut.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The wintering season for Monarch butterflies is not looking too great in California. Actually, it&#8217;s alarming. According to a monitoring group for invertebrate conservation, Xerces Society, the counts are so low this year that on top of the 97% species decline since the 1980s, monarchs at 97 California overwintering sites have dropped from around 148,000 in 2017-2018 winter to just over 20,400 for the 2018-2019 season from November through February.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re heading for one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/nature\/monarch-butterflies.html\">well-known Monarch butterfly groves<\/a>, you may want to leave your expectations at home. However, there are some things the Xerces Society would like you consider as contributions to this situation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Look for milkweed, monarchs, and especially monarch caterpillars, and reporting them on the Western Monarch Milkweed Mapper (monarchmilkweedmapper.org).<\/li>\n<li>Plant native milkweed species where appropriate in regions where they naturally occur; typically not within 5\u201310 miles of overwintering sites in central and northern coastal California.<\/li>\n<li>Reduce or eliminate pesticide use, particularly insecticide use. Support agricultural producers who minimize pesticide use and provide wildlife habitat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-butterflies.html\">Butterfly Festivals &amp; Events<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>CLAREMONT: Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pollinator Gardens: Bees, Butterflies, and Hummingbirds\u00a0January 19, 2019<\/li>\n<li>Butterfly Pavilion Opening April 20, 2019<\/li>\n<li>Butterflies &amp; Brews June 7, 14, 21 &amp; 28, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>FOUNTAIN VALLEY:\u00a0Monarch Butterfly Day at Mile Square Park February 2, 2019<\/p>\n<p>MARIPOSA: Butterfly Festival May 3-5, 2019<\/p>\n<p>PISMO BEACH:\u00a0Western Monarch Butterfly Recognition Day February 2, 2019<\/p>\n<p>SANTA CRUZ: Monarch Butterfly Tours January 12, 13 &amp; 19, 2019<\/p>\n<p>VISTA:\u00a0Butterfly Farms daily April through November<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wintering season for Monarch butterflies is not looking too great in California. Actually, it&#8217;s alarming. According to a monitoring group for invertebrate conservation, Xerces Society, the counts are so low this year that on top of the 97% species decline since the 1980s, monarchs at 97 California overwintering sites have dropped from around 148,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25682"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25683,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25682\/revisions\/25683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}