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From KQED.

Welcome back to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Western monarch butterflies all but disappeared from coastal California last fall,

but there are now promising signs of an uptick in numbers.

The Pacific Grove Monarch Sanctuary, which didn't see a single

monarch last winter, recently counted over 13,000 butterflies. As citizen scientists begin this

year's Thanksgiving monarch butterfly count, we want to talk with some experts about why we're

seeing this mostly unexpected rebound in monarch butterflies and what it might mean for their future.

Joining us are Emma Peltin, a conservation biologist and Western monarch lead at the Zerxes Society for Invertebrate Conservation.

Welcome, Emma.

Thanks so much for having me.

And we also have David James, an entomologist at Washington State University,

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