U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 Butterfly populations in the United States have dropped by almost a quarter in the last two decades, according to a new analysis published ...

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Two-thirds of studied species declined by more than 10%, the study said. Butterfly populations have dropped by 22% across 554 recorded species in the United States, according to a new study in the ...

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US butterfly populations have declined by 22% since 2000, with 114 species showing significant drops. A study published in Science found insecticides, climate change, and habitat loss are driving ...

Over the past 20 years the U.S. butterfly population has declined 22%, a dramatic loss that has scientists concerned. "The easy number to think about is the total number of butterflies in your yard.

We found declines in just about every region of the continental U.S. and across almost all butterfly species. Overall, nearly one-third of the 342 butterfly species we were able to study declined ...

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Still, researchers didn’t have enough data to include some of the most imperiled butterfly species, which probably experienced some of the steepest declines. And the data was quite likely biased ...