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The Butterfly Problem For 23 years, the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation has held an annual monarch butterfly count. Volunteers visit spots on the West Coast where monarchs are known to gather. They count the insects to learn about the health of the species.Xerces started counting in 1997. That year, it found more than a million monarchs. By 2018, that number had dropped to fewer than 30,000. In 2020, Xerces counted just 1,914 monarchs.A study was published in March in the journal Science. Researchers looked at decades’ worth of data on butterflies in the western United States. They found that butterfly populations are shrinking by almost 2% each year. “It compounds each year,” Matt Forister, the study’s lead author, told TIME for Kids. “Over time, it’s really bad.” For 23 years, the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation has held an annual monarch butterfly count. Volunteers visit spots on the West Coast where monarchs are known to gather. They count the insects to learn about the health of the species.


Xerces started counting in 1997. That year, it found more than a million monarchs. By 2018, that number had dropped to fewer than 30,000. In 2020, Xerces counted just 1,914 monarchs.


A study was published in March in the journal Science. Researchers looked at decades’ worth of data on butterflies in the western United States. They found that butterfly populations are shrinking by almost 2% each year. “It compounds each year,” Matt Forister, the study’s lead author, told TIME for Kids. “Over time, it’s really bad.”

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The Xerces Society has run annual monarch butterfly counts on the U.S. West Coast since 1997. Counts fell from over one million monarchs in 1997 to under 30,000 by 2018 and to 1,914 in 2020. A Science study found western U.S. butterfly populations are declining by nearly 2% per year, a compounded loss that becomes severe over time.