A team of scientists combined 76,957 surveys from 35 monitoring programs and blended them for an apples-to-apples comparison and ended up counting 12.6 million butterflies over the decades.
The San Diego Zoo Safari Park's Butterfly Jungle is open for the season, offering visitors the chance to feed and be ...
"Losing one out of every five butterflies over 20 years should be a big wake-up call to people," said Dr ... populations remain resilient in the face of ongoing environmental changes.
“Butterflies are vanishing from the face of the earth,” he added ... Roads, homes and other development are cutting up and stamping out meadows where butterflies once flew.