A Puzzling Decline in Butterflies - San Francisco Chronicle 12/22/99

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A Puzzling Decline in Butterflies
Even common species like Monarchs are scarce in Sacramento Valley 

Glen Martin, Chronicle Staff Writer    Wednesday, December 22, 1999 
  

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Butterfly populations are at an almost 30-year low in the Sacramento Valley, 
adjacent foothills and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, researchers 
say. 

Entomologists find the data particularly worrisome because the decline is so 
widespread and there is no clear reason for it. 

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