Monarch (Danaus plexippus)
Other Names Monarch Butterfly Description Adult monarch butterflies are orange above with black veins and white spotted wing borders. Males have a black scent patch on a vein across the middle of the hind wing.
Monarch Butterfly Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Description: The upper side of a male Monarch is bright orange with wide black borders and black veins, while the hindwing has a patch of scent scales (see photo).
Monarch (butterfly)
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MONARCH MIMIC
The poisonous Monarch is mimicked by the non-poisonous North American Viceroy butterfly (Limenitis archippus), which has a similar shape, coloration and patterns.
Monarch Butterfly
Get to know one of the world's most beautiful butterflies. Find out about the mass migrations that take monarchs to warmer climates each winter.
Insect Eggs Gallery ...
Monarch Butterfly - Danaus plexippus.
The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) has a black body with white spots and bright orange wings with black borders and veins (some white spots are dappled in the black wing areas too).
Monarch Butterfly Migration Underway
Every fall, tens of millions of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) travel up to 3, ...
Monarchs face threats to their survival. In Canada and the United States, large scale agriculture and herbicides are turning flower filled meadows into flower less monocultures.
Monarch Butterfly In Flight - A Simple Blessing
Deerfield Trail
08/24/11
Monarch Butterfly - Egg Laying - Ovipositing
Monarch Butterfly laying an egg - ovipositing - on the underside of a milkweed leaf. Cropped clo...
Monarch Behaviour
No observations regarding Monarch behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Monarchs ...
Monarchs can be found all over the world, but it's found most often in North, Central, and South America. It lives in open fields of milkweed during the spring and summer months, and in areas with lots of trees to perch on during the winter.
Monarch migration back to the north is like a relay race! The original butterfly dies along the way, but the offspring it leaves behind continues on to the north where the cycle will start again in the fall.
Monarch Butterflies
The Monarch of Migration
The Monarch butterfly is known by scientists as Danaus plexippus, which in Greek literally means "sleepy transformation.
Monarch migration
Life
A 2,000 mile migration takes monarch butterflies to Mexico for hibernation.
Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
Often called the Milkweed Butterfly, this large black veined orange winged butterfly can be observed feeding on milkweed. During its mating behavior, the adult male monarch will display a "courtship dance.
Monarch butterflies and their annual migration face threats in their summer sites, as well as the wintering sites. In the north, milkweed is often destroyed, as it is seen as a harmful weed by some people.
Monarch butterflies are found in meadows, roadsides, and sandy areas of North America where milkweed plants grow. The larvae, or caterpillars, of this insect feed on the milkweed. Eventually they undergo metamorphosis, changing into butterflies.
Monarchs are large butterflies, noted for their powerful flight and long migrations. They have a wing span of 3 3/8 - 4 5/8 inches.
Monarchs are large, with a wingspan of 9.3-10.5 cm. They have bright orange wings with black veins a few white dots. The Monarch is the only butterfly that annually migrates both north and south as birds do.
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Monarchs live in fields and parks where milkweed and native plants are common. Because monarchs feed on flowering plants, many homeowners are converting portions their backyards from grass to flowers to help the butterfly population.
Celestial Monarch Hypothymis coelestis
Described by: Tweeddale (1877)
Alternate common name(s): Celestial Blue-monarch
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
White-eared Monarchs are distinctive small flycatchers with a black, white and grey harlequin pattern to the plumage .
Regent Parrot (eastern subsp.) - Polytelis anthopeplus monarchoides
Splendour Parrots
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Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
One of the best-known butterfly species, the beautiful monarch butterfly is renowned for its spectacular, long-distance annual migrations... More 36 Images 6 Videos ...
Monarch Mimicry
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Family: Papilionidae, Swallowtails view all from this family ...
Monarchs Subfamily Danainae
Monarch (Danaus plexippus)
Queen (Danaus gilippus)
Soldier (Danaus eresimus) ...
Monarch
This species used to be found abundantly in tropical pinelands and hardwood hammocks in close association with its larval food plant, the native cycad called coontie. The development of its coastal habitat nearly wiped out the Atala.
Monarchidae
Rhipidura fuliginosa. Piwakawaka. Fantail
Motacillidae
Anthus novaeseelandiae. Pihoihoi. New Zealand pipit. Richard's Pipit ...
Monarchs (chronology and geneaology)
Monarchs (more genealogy)
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The monarchy of Austria-Hungary once chose the Imperial Eagle to be its heraldic animal, but this did not help this bird.
The monarch butterfly goes through a miraculous metamorphosis, changing from an egg to a hungry caterpillar to a quiet pupa and emerging as a beautiful winged adult. All butterflies, moths, beetles and flies go through these life stages.
Danainae - Monarchs
Queen (Danaus gilippus)
Mission, Hidalgo Co., TX 10/13/04.
Soldier (Danaus eresimus)
Mission, Hidalgo Co., TX 10/13/04.
Many butterflies, including monarch, over the water. As there were no other birders on board, and the torrential rain kept fogging my glasses and optics, I probably missed some other good stuff.
Monarch Butterfly Danaus plexippus
Monarch Butterfly on flower
Monaural stethoscopes
Monkey faced bat from the Solomon Islands
Monopoly or direct access? Industrial organization at the Melos obsidian quarries
Monotreme finder
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Flycatchers vary in color from drab to brilliant, as in the crested monarch and paradise flycatchers of Asia and Africa.
The workers, who control the polity of the hive (the "queen" being exceedingly "limited" in her monarchy), ...
Remarks The outstanding characteristic of this little male monarch is its song. There are other birds whose songs are just as sweet and varied, but considering the size of the performer, none can match it for volume.
monarch butterflies migrate south towards Mexico to avoid the cold Canadian falls and winters). Some are toxic - usually displayed by orange and red colouration, and some have evolved to mimic toxic species.
In nineteenth century England, Pugs flourished under the patronage of the monarch Queen Victoria. Her many Pugs, which she bred herself, had such names as Olga, Pedro, Minka, Fatima and Venus.
Nikon Monarch X!
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I have seen the remains of some of these ancient monarchs of our forests so excavated, and that so singularly, that the tottering fragments of the trunk appeared to be merely supported by the great pile of chips by which its base was surrounded.
If milkweed grows in your area, monarch caterpillars will be on the plants in the spring or summer. Locate many large moth caterpillars like the tomato sphinx caterpillar by the frass below the plant they are eating.
King David Kalakaua, Monarch of Hawai`i from 1874 to 1891, made lands of the Leahi Land Holdings available in 1876 to the people for a thirty year lease.
Walking closer we saw hundreds of Monarch butterflies, apparently restocking on energy supplies for the next leg of their journey. The area we found them is also on the flyway for raptors.
The forest at Mbeliling on the Indonesian island of Flores supports important populations of the Endangered Flores Hanging-parrot Loriculus flosculus, Flores Monarch Monarcha sacerdotum and Flores Crow Corvus florensis, ...
A more recent threat is climate change, which impacts on other species such as monarch butterflies which pollinate cacti species; and poses a threat to some cactus species through rising sea levels.
Priority region
Chihuahuan-Tehuacán Deserts ...
Schaller, G. B. 1977. Mountain Monarchs: wild sheep and goats of the Himalayas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
All butterflies have six legs and feet. In some species such as the Monarch Butterfly, the front pair of legs remains tucked up under the body most of the time, and are difficult to see.
Gerrard, Jon, M.. et. al., The Bald Eagle: Haunts and Habits of a Wilderness Monarch. Smithsonian Institution Press,1984.
Mackenzie, John, P.S.. Birds of Prey. Paper Birch Press Inc., 1986.
Butterflies are found worldwide except on the continent of Antarctica. Many species migrate to avoid adverse conditions. Most migrate relatively short distances, but monarchs and several other species migrate thousands of miles.
Behavior ...
The prairie and wetland wildflowers also attract many other beautiful and well-known butterflies such as the Monarch and Painted Lady (right, center).
Common species in northwestern Ontario are the monarch (Danaus plexippus), mourning cloak (Nymphalis antiopa), and luna moth (Actias luna).
 See also: Caterpillar, Shell, Flycatcher, Tiger, Nymph
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