WESTMINSTER, Colo. — The monarch butterfly, famed for its bright orange and black wings and a migration that can span up to 3,000 miles, is facing serious decline. Conservationists say solutions to save the monarch butterfly population range from planting a single backyard milkweed to reforesting parts of Mexico.

“Monarchs are iconic butterflies, not just because of their spectacular coloration, but also because they complete one of the greatest migrations in the animal kingdom,” Shiran Herschcovich, a lepidopterist at Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, said. “They’re going to shelter in the same forest that their great-grandparents were in without ever having been there before.” Shiran Herschcovich, a lepidopterist, or butterfly scientist, at Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster.

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