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Western Monarch Butterfly

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This document The Western Monarch Butterfly Conservation Plan is intended to articulate and attain WAFWAs vision to identify and promote a shared set of coordinated ecosystem-based conservation strategies across all partner agencies to achieve the vision of a viable western monarch population. Western Monarch Advocates are fighting to save them. Western Monarch Call To Action Xerces Society Each spring the butterflies fan out across the West to lay their eggs on milkweed and drink nectar from flowers in Arizona. Western monarch butterfly . Under 2000 monarchs were counted at both Thanksgiving and New Years across 400 overwintering sites in central coast California. Western monarch butterflies head south from the Pacific Northwest to California each winter returning to the same places and even the same trees where they cluster to keep warm. The monarch butterfly is one of the most easily recognized and frequently studied insects in the world and has recently come into the spotlight ...