<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000000">Hi everybody,</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">The news is looking good for monarchs overwintering in California! The following update was shared by our monarch team earlier today.</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Matthew</font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span></div><span><font color="#000000"><div><span><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span><font color="#000000">_________________________________________________________</font></span></div><div><span><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div></font></span><div><div><b><font size="4">The Xerces Society's Western Monarch Count: Mid-Season Update, November 2022</font></b><br></div><div><span><font color="#000000"><b>Date: 11/22/22</b></font></span></div><div><span><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span><font color="#000000">More than </font><b><font color="#000000">105,000</font><font color="#b45f06">*</font><font color="#ff0000"> </font><font color="#000000">monarch butterflies</font></b><font color="#000000"> have been reported to The Xerces Society's Western Monarch Count project as of 11/22/22. T</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">his year seems to be another good year for migratory western monarchs, and survey reports continue to roll in on a daily basis! </span></div><div><div><span><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Natural Bridges: monitors report 7,500 as of 11/15/22</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Lighthouse Field: monitors report 2,000 as of 11/15/22</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Pacific Grove: monitors report 12,328 as of 11/18/22</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Pismo Beach: monitors report 24,058 as of 11/15/22</font></li></ul></div></span><div><font color="#000000">The <a href="https://www.westernmonarchcount.org/" target="_blank"><b>Western Monarch Count (WMC)</b></a> is <span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit">an annual, volunteer-powered community science effort that tracks the status of overwintering western monarchs & their habitat. There are two official monitoring periods that comprise the WMC: the Thanksgiving Count and the New Year's Count. </span></font><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0)">We are approximately half-way through the 2022 Thanksgiving Count monitoring period, and v</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">olunteers and partners have surveyed over </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">70 monarch butterfly overwintering sites</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> in California so far. We expect that volunteers, partners and other participants will survey more than 200 overwintering sites for the Thanksgiving Count this year (11/12/22 - 12/4/22), so data included in this mid-season update represent only a fraction of the total number of sites that will be monitored. </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000">Other mid-season highlights include the confirmation of four additional overwintering sites (two in San Luis Obispo County and two in Alameda County) and greater monarch presence in and around Sonoma, Marin, and Bay Area counties. Both Marin County, CA, and Alameda County, CA, are reported to have over 2,000 butterflies each - the most overwintering monarchs recorded in these regions since the 2017-2018 season. </font></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></div><span><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><b><i><font color="#000000">Stay tuned!</font> </i></b><a href="https://xerces.org/" target="_blank"><b>The Xerces Society</b></a> <font color="#000000">will release another unofficial count update in early December. You can also follow the Western Monarch Count project on</font> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/westernmonarchcount" target="_blank"><b>Facebook</b></a>. </div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></div><div><i><font color="#b45f06"><b style="">* Reminder:</b> The Xerces Society will announce the official Thanksgiving Count and New Year's Count results in early 2023 once all data have been submitted and vetted. Count updates shared prior to the official announcements are not the final tally.</font></i></div></span></div><div><br></div></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span><font color="#000000"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Isis Howard</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:1.38;margin-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