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Great to see!
Of course, the author just HAD to get this in: “overall trends show the monarch population declining—largely as a consequence of climate change causing weather extremes, like wildfires and storms.”
“Monarch butterflies are kind of like Goldilocks,” Aravanis says. “They really need an area that’s not too hot, not too cold. So if you start getting areas with more extreme weather patterns, then there’s going to be less places for them to survive.”