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If you’re looking to take a deep dive into the monarch butterfly, be sure to check out our free monarch butterfly lesson plan, ... A Visual Guide to Monarch Butterflies. Ashley Haugen. November ...
M. tanacetifolia is an annual or biennial herb growing one or more branching stems up to about 10–40 centimetres (4– 15 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches) in height. [1] The multilobed leaves are up to 5–12.5 cm (2–5 in) long. [1]
Monarch butterflies flying and sipping nectar from milkweed flowers. The adult's wingspan ranges from 8.9 to 10.2 centimetres (3.5 to 4.0 in). [10] The upper sides of the wings are tawny orange, the veins and margins are black, and two series of small white spots occur in the margins. Monarch forewings also have a few orange spots near their tips.
Sexual dimorphism in plumage can be subtle, as in the paperbark flycatcher, where the female is identical to the male except for a slight buff on the throat; strikingly, in the Chuuk monarch, where the male is almost entirely white and the female entirely black; or non-existent, as in the Tahiti monarch.
Monarch butterfly caterpillars feeding on Gomphocarpus physocarpus. Gomphocarpus physocarpus is an undershrub perennial herb, that can grow to over six feet. The plant blooms in warm months. It grows on roadside banks, at elevations of 2800 to 5000 feet above sea level.
The black-naped monarch was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1779 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. [2] The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. [3]
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