Monarch Butterfly
Danaus plexippus
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Caterpillar hosts: Milkweed, milkweed and more
milkweed. Adult food: Monarchs are not picky about the source of their nectar,visiting many different flowers. Butterflies use vision to find flowers, but once they land on a potential food source, they use taste receptors on their feet to find the nectar! Habitat:Many open habitats including fields, meadows, weedy areas, marshes, and roadsides. |
| Note: The last butterflies to mature in the fall begin to migrate to Mexico. Along the way, these butterflies mate, lay eggs and die, with the next generation continuing the trip southward. Once the final generation of butterflies reach Mexico, they rest during the colder months and then begin the migration in the spring, again the trip is completed by more than one generation. The butterflies that leave in the fall are not the same butterflies that return in the spring. | |
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