According to a report recently released by Journey North, the count of monarch butterflies is at its all-time low this fall. The butterfly population is being suspected of soon facing a record crash.

`Journey North' is a citizen-scientist effort, which has the responsibility of tracking the monarch and other species' migration. The monarch watchers and scientists did their work in the main summer home of the monarchs in Central and Eastern North America.

However, the number of the butterflies was expected to have increased over years. But, there was no hint to an increase. Rather, the team was disappointed and concerned to see the number plunging year-on-year.

Director and founder, Elizabeth Howard, said that the roosts formed by the monarchs in late August as well as in September were the only indicator for the species' strength and healthiness.

The team said that just a small count of monarch butterflies could this summer make back to Canada. Their aim while migrating is to proliferate the generation, which now has started to move south to Mexico. Experts are worried that the count of monarchs could be lesser than the last year's count this year.

"This is really a proxy for peak migration because this is where people see really large numbers of monarchs and we're just not getting the reports, it's looking pretty bad", said Howard.