Date: 01/01/2014

Number: 13420

The fourth largest California overwintering site in 2013

This wintering site is known as Butterfly Grove Sanctuary, Pacific Grove. It was one of 6 sites that had more than 10,000 monarchs during the annual Thanksgiving Count in November, 2013.

This site's Thanksgiving Count data:

November, 2010: 4,968

November, 2011: 12,265

November, 2012: 10,790

November, 2013: 13,420

Summary of 2013 Thanksgiving Count data:
Total reported: 211,275 monarchs

Total counts: 162 sites

Average: 1,304.2 monarchs

Data collected by volunteers for the 2013 Western Monarch Thanksgiving Counts. Database created by Dennis Frey (Cal Poly), Shawna Stevens (Cal Poly), and Mia Monroe (Muir Woods NPS) Updated on January 30, 2014, by Mia Monroe and Candace Fallon (The Xerces Society).

Pacific Grove, CA

Latitude: 36.6 Longitude: -121.9

Observed by:
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