Synonym: Danaus plexippus, milkweed butterfly, monarch. Similar words: butterfly, monarch, monarchy, monarchic, monarchist, absolute monarchy, overfly, butter churn. Meaning: n. large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed.
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1. The caterpillars of the monarch butterfly, surprisingly, are able to feed on milkweed without taking any of these precautions.
2. Both the caterpillar and adult of the monarch butterfly are distasteful to their enemies.
3. The wings of the monarch butterfly, for example, contain powerful heart-stopping poisons called cardiac glycosides.
4. Overall a monarch butterfly is no more or less striking than its host, the milkweed pod.
5. Late in the afternoon, a monarch butterfly would come and perch like a feather on my face and tickle me awake with its spindly legs.
6. The Monarch Butterfly breathes through its wings and female Monarchs have thicker wing veins.
7. In eastern Canada, a Monarch butterfly emerges from its cocoon and spreads its wings.
8. Michoacan state is home to the country's monarch butterfly reserve as well as many violent drug gangs that have carved smuggling routes through the often-arid terrain.
9. Amongst other things, she has a Monarch Butterfly tattoo, commonly used to identify Monarch slaves.
10. How does the monarch butterfly travel thousands of kilometres on its yearly migration?
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11. For example, the pollen of modified crops had already been shown to be poisonous to monarch butterfly larvae.
12. In 2009 Erika Harrsch developed the project "United States of North America" which is a continuation with the Monarch Butterfly subject, this time opening up a dialogue on nationality and immigration.
13. For instance, research this year indicates that larvae of the monarch butterfly exposed to the genetically modified corn 'behave differently than other larvae.
14. Last May a study published by Cornell University showed that pollen from some strains of corn with built-in pesticides can kill the larva of the Monarch butterfly, a pest by nobody's standards.
15. "Scientist Steven Reppert, who led the research, said: "We have shown the need for the circadian clock for monarch butterfly migration.
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