Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Thursday, Feb. 2. Some of my most vivid memories of growing up in Ventura County are from second grade — mostly thanks to my ...

A juniper hairstreak butterfly in Clermont County. Volunteers observed 177 of these butterflies during the 2025 Clermont County Butterfly Count. Local citizen scientists are counting butterflies this ...

Editor’s note: The Wild is all about featuring a variety of exciting voices from SoCal’s outdoors scene. For the next several weeks, that voice will belong to Times staff writer Lila Seidman. A native ...

Local butterfly counters predict a low number of monarch butterflies coming through Goleta’s Ellwood Mesa for the 2025 season ...

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (WJHL) — Community members joined together at Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park on Saturday to volunteer at a “butterfly count”, which is part of a national effort to preserve ...

A "Butterfly Emergency" has highlighted the need for wildlife-friendly gardens ahead of this summer's Big Butterfly Count. The Butterfly Conservation Society's annual event will take place from Friday ...

If you are only out for numbers, you count, count, count." The data collected from both days will be sent to the Vermont Institute of Natural Science Vermont Butterfly Survey, which is in its sixth ...

PISMO BEACH, Calif. – On Thursday, invertebrate conservation group the Xerxes Society released the results of their 28th annual Western Monarch Butterfly Count and recorded the second lowest ...

The Big Butterfly Count is back again this summer, running from Friday 18th July until Sunday 10th August 2025. The event will help scientists to better understand the effects of climate change on ...