Yahoo News reported this week that “rain, cold and high winds from the storms caused the loss of 133 acres (54 hectares) of pine and fir trees in the forests west of Mexico City, more than four times the amount lost to illegal logging this year. It was the biggest storm-related loss since the winter of 2009-10, when unusually heavy rainstorms and mudslides caused the destruction of 262 acres (106 hectares) of trees.” The storms appeared to have frozen or killed 6.2 million monarch butterflies, over 7 percent of the total number of the species.
Monarch populations have crashed in recent years due to the decline of suitable ecosystems due to urbanization and agriculture as well as pressures on the Mexican highland areas where they migrate each year. You can more about this at https://www.yahoo.com/news/storms-damage-trees-mexican-monarch-152228958.html.
