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Get a Closer Look at Save Mount Diablo’s Monarchs and Milkweeds Project! Monarch butterflies are an iconic North American species. Their migrations, spanning up to 3,000 miles, take them up…

With its bright orange wings and nearly 3,000-mile migration, the monarch butterfly captures our hearts. Few insects are more iconic. Unfortunately, monarchs are endangered, and there’s a chance that future…

Monarchs on Our Milkweeds in Seven Different Places We have been mapping where milkweeds are found on Save Mount Diablo’s lands and around the greater Mount Diablo region in an…

Western monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus plexippus) have decreased in startling numbers in recent years. Though genetically the same species as their eastern counterparts, the western population travels from the Rocky…