" Pismo Beach salutes another winter migrant with a special celebration for California Western Monarch Day. The visitors bureau will serve cake and punch to the humans visiting the city's butterfly grove, which has hosted an average of 25,000 monarch butterflies over the last five years and holds…
Continue ReadingA visit this week to the Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove showed that the butterfly count on the board was holding steady at 21,000. With the weather forecast for the remainder of this week and all of next week calling for mid-sixties to low seventies temps, this appears to be a great time to…
Continue ReadingDrove by the Monarch Grove today. The latest Monarch count on the board was 21,000, which is greater than the biggest count from last year's season. This bodes well for this year. Usually the biggest numbers are counted in late December, even early January. Photo by Lisa D Walker…
Continue ReadingThe latest count at the Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove is 19,000. This count is already greater than the top count of 17,000 for the 2009 season. This count bodes well for our Monarch season. In years past the largest count number is posted in late December or early January. There is plenty of…
Continue ReadingMonarch Population at the Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove is 14,000…
Continue ReadingNovember 8, 2010 Current count - 10,600 at the grove More Information at MonarchButterfly.org…
Continue ReadingSpectators come from all over the Central Coast and throughout the state to view the Monarchs. Visitors are greeted by knowledgeable and well-informed volunteer docents offering daily talks and information. [caption id="attachment_774" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Monarch Butterfly Grove…
Continue ReadingAbout 10 am this morning drove by the Monarch Butterfly Grove and there were about a dozen people in the grove staring up into the trees to check out some of the early Monarch arrivals. We still are a bit away from the docent trailer being ready. Remember our Monarch season runs from November into…
Continue ReadingOver at the Monarch Butterfly Grove this week they have been preparing for the beginning of the Monarch season. The docent trailer should be in place soon. We will post when the docents are ready and the grove will begin it's 2010 season. There have been a number of improvements implemented…
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