What a Massive Butterfly Count Reveals

What a Massive Butterfly Count Reveals

If you wandered through a Midwestern meadow in 1992 to look for butterflies, the odds are good you would have seen many more than if you returned to the same meadow today. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . It’s no secret of course that much of the order Lepidoptera—which includes butterflies, moths and skippers—is in trouble. But new information emerges when scientists can get their hands on more than 4.3 millio…

No butterfly count in 2025

It was recently brought to our attention that we haven’t been posting results of our annual butterfly count. The last time we shared the data was for 2020 (see blog post). Here are the numbers for the latest years and updated totals for all counts since 1998. 2021 2022 2023 – rained out, no data 2024 Totals for all years from 1998