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 "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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AS USUAL. WELL, STARTING IN MAY, NEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS NEEDS VOLUNTEERS TO HELP COLLECT DATA ON THE STATE’S BUTTERFLY POPULATION. THE BIG BUTTERFLY COUNT LASTS THROUGH SEPTEMBER. AND JOINING US ...

BANDERA COUNTY — Mid-sentence, Grace Waggener stopped short and pointed. “Butterfly, butterfly, butterfly!” she called out. Waggener and Tom Collins leaned over to inspect the insect, which was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fewer-than-usual monarch butterflies migrated through San Luis Obispo County this winter, according to data from the conservation-focused nonprofit the Xerces Society. “It feels like a punch to the ...