Butterfly populations fluctuate wildly over the decades, there's no "butterfly crisis". We've already seen such declines followed by huge population bursts after some time. There's no reason to speculate that this won't happen again.
At the same time there's no butterfly quantity crisis.
I wonder about journalists writing news titles, are they stupid, or do they pretend they are?
Miscommunication, misunderstanding is the norm. We just have to power thru it.