Aphid infestations reduce monarch butterfly colonization, herbivory, and growth on ornamental milkweed. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Anthropogenic disturbance is driving global biodiversity loss, including the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), a dietary specialist of milkweed. In response, ornamental milkweed plantings are increasingly common in urbanized landscapes, and recent ...
Mach BM, Long W, Daniels JC, Dale AG.
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Power Benefits of High-Altitude Flapping Wing Flight at the Monarch Butterfly Scale. [PDF]
Biomimetics (Basel), 2023 The long-range migration of monarch butterflies, extended over 4000 km, is not well understood. Monarchs experience varying density conditions during migration, ranging as high as 3000 m, where the air density is much lower than at sea level.
Kang CK +5 more
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The influence of stimulus history on directional coding in the monarch butterfly brain. [PDF]
J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol, 2023 The central complex is a brain region in the insect brain that houses a neural network specialized to encode directional information. Directional coding has traditionally been investigated with compass cues that revolve in full rotations and at constant ...
Beetz MJ, El Jundi B.
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How the monarch got its spots: Long-distance migration selects for larger white spots on monarch butterfly wings. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Elucidating the adaptations that promote flight in animals can aid the understanding of evolution and species divergence, and/or provide inspiration for aerospace engineering and the design of better aerial vehicles.
Davis AK +4 more
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Biology and Conservation of the Monarch Butterfly [PDF]
The Journal of Animal Ecology, 1994 This book is a collection of papers pre sented as part of the Second International Conference on the Monarch Butterfly held at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in Los Angeles, CA, in September 1986. In addition to fine introductory and concluding sections prepared by the editors, it contains 42 papers contributed by 50 authors ...
Patrick Hughes
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Monarch Butterfly Ecology, Behavior, and Vulnerabilities in North Central United States Agricultural Landscapes. [PDF]
Bioscience, 2022 The North American monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is a candidate species for listing under the Endangered Species Act. Multiple factors are associated with the decline in the eastern population, including the loss of breeding and foraging habitat ...
Grant TJ +10 more
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History of colonisation and updated distribution of the Monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758) and its hostplants in mainland Portugal, Azores and Madeira [PDF]
Nota Lepidopterologica, 2023 The first observations of the Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) in Iberia date from 1886, although breeding records emerged almost a century later: 1960 in Spain, 1980s–1990s in Madeira and Azores, and 2003 in mainland Portugal.
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Weighting of Celestial and Terrestrial Cues in the Monarch Butterfly Central Complex. [PDF]
Front Neural Circuits, 2022 Monarch butterflies rely on external cues for orientation during their annual long-distance migration from Northern US and Canada to Central Mexico. These external cues can be celestial cues, such as the sun or polarized light, which are processed in the
Nguyen TAT +4 more
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The neurobiology of the Monarch butterfly compass.
Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2023 Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) have become a superb model system to unravel how the tiny insect brain controls an impressive navigation behavior, such as long-distance migration. Moreover, the ability to compare the neural substrate between migratory and nonmigratory Monarch butterflies provides us with an attractive model to specifically study
M. Jerome Beetz, Basil el Jundi
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TRITHORAX-dependent arginine methylation of HSP68 mediates circadian repression by PERIOD in the monarch butterfly. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 Significance Circadian repression drives the transcriptional feedback loops that keep circadian (∼24-h) time and synchronize an animal’s physiology and behavior to the daily environmental changes.
Zhang Y +4 more
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