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    Monarch butterfly migration is the phenomenon, mainly across North America, where the subspecies Danaus plexippus plexippus migrates each autumn to overwintering...
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    The monarch butterfly or simply monarch (Danaus plexippus) is a milkweed butterfly (subfamily Danainae) in the family Nymphalidae. Other common names,...
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    The Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (Spanish: Reserva de Biosfera de la Mariposa Monarca) is a World Heritage Site containing most of the overwintering...
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    annual migration cycle involves around five generations. More detailed information on this migration can be found under monarch butterfly migration. Short-horned...
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    some migrate. The best-known lepidopteran migration is that of the eastern population of the monarch butterfly which migrates from southern Canada to wintering...
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    Monarch Watch is a volunteer-based citizen science organization that tracks the fall migration of the monarch butterfly. It is self-described as "a nonprofit...
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    park is part of a greater monarch conservation program. It tags monarch butterflies at its annual migration festival, the Monarchs and Raptors Weekend, held...
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    studied the migration of monarch butterflies, established reverse genetics in this new model system, and collaborated on a paper outlining the monarch genome...
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  • mammals and more recently on the navigational mechanisms of migratory monarch butterflies. He was the Higgins Family Professor of Neuroscience at the University...
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  • behind monarch butterfly migration patterns. They are particularly relevant for studying sun compass orientation in migrating butterflies. In butterfly migration...
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    (Limenitis archippus) is a North American butterfly. It was long thought to be a Batesian mimic of the monarch butterfly, but since the viceroy is also distasteful...
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    habitat for monarch butterflies. During monarch butterfly migration, Monarch Butterfly Natural Preserve has up to 150,000 monarch butterflies from October...
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  • and Mena Massoud. Based on the real-life migration of monarch butterflies, the plot follows an young butterfly named Patrick who goes on a adventure over...
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    Butterflies are often polymorphic, and many species make use of camouflage, mimicry, and aposematism to evade their predators. Some, like the monarch...
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  • neogregarine protozoan parasite that infects monarch (Danaus plexippus) and queen (Danaus gilippus) butterflies. There are no other known hosts. The species...
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  • facilitate the health and migration of the western population of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus). The population of western monarchs require very different...
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    the yearly monarch butterfly migration. A festival is hosted annually to educate people on the practice of tagging monarch butterflies as they continue...
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    LoneyPlanet. Retrieved March 24, 2021. Stopyra, Diane. "Why Cape May's monarch butterfly migration population varies so much". WHYY. Retrieved October 9, 2017....
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  • behavior of some birds and other animals Monarch butterfly roosts, communal resting sites in monarch butterfly migration Bat roost, a list of places where bats...
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  • an affair with a telephone repairman, Turnbow finds millions of monarch butterflies in the valley behind her home. As the news of her discovery spreads...
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    between different geographic regions, as in the continent-wide monarch butterfly migration. Eusocial insects build nests, guard eggs, and provide food for...
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    migratory butterflies, such as the monarch butterfly and the painted lady, no individual completes the whole migration. Instead, the butterflies mate and...
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    for some butterflies, however it may be harmful to the migration patterns of monarch butterflies when used in gardens outside of its native tropical range...
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  • investigation into the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), tracking the details of what is considered one of the longest known insect migrations: the flight of...
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    Oberhauser, Karen; De Roode, Jacob; Atizer, Sonya (February 2011). "Monarch butterfly migration and parasite transmission in eastern North America". Ecology...
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    flight. Butterfly Conservation North American Butterfly Association Lepidoptera migration List of butterflies of Great Britain Monarch Butterfly Biosphere...
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  • studied the migration of monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus L. Together with his wife, Norah Roden Urquhart CM, he identified their migration routes, discovered...
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    extraordinarily large migration observed in Israel at the end of March, estimated at a billion individual butterflies. Painted lady migration patterns are highly...
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    slender than that of the monarch. The queen butterfly is related to two species to which it bears a striking resemblance: the monarch (Danaus plexippus) and...
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    590–640 nm range, which includes orange and red. In species such as the monarch butterfly that express these lateral filtering pigments, higher wavelengths...
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