This year, for or the first time in memory, the monarch butterflies didn’t come, at least not on the Day of the Dead. They began to straggle in a week later than usual, in record-low numbers. Last year’s low of 60 million now seems great compared with the fewer than three million that have shown up so far this year. Some experts fear that the spectacular migration could be near collapse.

The Year the Monarch Didn’t Appear
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The precipitous loss of native vegetation across the United States has led to a dramatic decline of insect populations. …read more