{"id":260144,"date":"2026-04-09T23:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/260144\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T23:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:21:09","slug":"long-beach-garden-club-member-works-to-save-monarch-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/260144\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Garden Club member works to save monarch butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) \u2014 A member of the Long Beach Garden Club is working to save monarch butterflies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Holly Hahne has more than 100 caterpillars waiting to turn into butterflies. She started saving them after seeing someone stomping them to death at a local nursery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Holly Hahne has more than 100 caterpillars waiting to turn into butterflies. She started...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/OZU25XY3MVD6ZKO3T7NXJ52CBU.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Holly Hahne has more than 100 caterpillars waiting to turn into butterflies. She started saving them after seeing someone stomping them to death at a local nursery.(WLOX)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hahne said many people think they are an invasive species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The International Union for Conservation and Nature lists monarch butterflies as endangered with a high risk of extinction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIf you see them, you should go out and buy more plants, because we have to keep these species going,\u201d Hahne said. \u201cThey are on the brink of extinction and on the endangered species list now, and it is important for us to take care of our living things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"The International Union for Conservation and Nature lists monarch butterflies as endangered...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FETKYTXUB5F6ZJGACZ4OA4HCJU.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>The International Union for Conservation and Nature lists monarch butterflies as endangered with a high risk of extinction.(WLOX)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The World Wildlife Fund says the monarch butterfly population is at risk due to habitat loss, pesticides and climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammar error in this story? Report it to our team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlox.com\/page\/error-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WLOX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) \u2014 A member of the Long Beach Garden Club is working to save monarch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[114613,114614,131,133,132,77588],"class_list":["post-260144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-butterflies","tag-garden-club","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-monarch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}