Published: 05/31/2022

Dear Western Monarch Friends,

Monarchs are stretching into Oregon while new monarch reports are still appearing in Nevada, Arizona, California and Utah. Southern California has a surge in sightings as monarchs along the coast continue to breed locally. Meanwhile milkweed is up in Idaho and just in time too as monarchs are beginning to arrive. 

Karen Oberhauser discusses the new data on monarch winter population numbers. Along the East Coast, monarchs are making northern progress and entering new states and provinces. And Western monarchs are venturing beyond California to Nevada, Utah, and Oregon.