What are Monarch butterflies?
Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is one of the most beautiful and interesting butterflies in the world. The monarchs have distinctive clear orange wings with black veins and outer edges. The black outer edges are spotted with white spots, as well as the black body. The predicts have three dark orange spots near the tips and the rear wings are rounded and lighter orange. They follow the four -stage life cycle of all butterflies and moths, passing from the egg, to the larvae (Caterpillar), to Pupa or Chrysalis (Cocoon), an adult butterfly. This metamorphism is one of the great miracles of life. The eggs solidify and after a few days a small caterpillar appears. The caterpillar is ringed with colorful tapes of cream, black and yellow. At first it is a nutrient, then milk algae leaves.
Milkweed contains poison in the form of toxic cardenolide glycosides, which serves as a natural defense of monarch against predators. Because the adult butterfly sipped only food but can't eat, it is on caterpillar consume lIsty that gives adults his innate defense. Harmful milk algae attacks agricultural land, which makes the monarch beneficial insects.
The monarch larva day and night to increase its weight and melt 4 times during the process. When it reaches a length of about 2 inches (5 cm), it finds a suitable place to connect the hind legs and hang upside down. He uses his spinneret to create a silk glue to keep it safe, and then starts to release his skin or exoskeleton. The new skin solidifies into the green wax navel. This cocoon is becoming increasingly transparent when the 10-14 -day trail is approaching when adult monarchas appears, its wings wet and crumpled.
Adult butterfly Monarch will remain in a broken cocoon drawing blood into the veins in the wings to inflate them. Once inflated, they are allowed to dry in the air, then the monarch is ready for flight. Now he gets his nutrition from drinking nectar flower withProboscis or a long language. When Proboscis is not used, it is curled in the mouth.
The butterfly eyes are folded, made of many smaller eyes. They can see colors and pictures. Butterflies also have the senses of hearing, touch and taste/smell. The adult does not grow and the life of an adult monarch varies. If it occurs from the cocoon in early summer, it will live for about 2-5 weeks, but if it appears at the end of summer, it will live in the winter months.
One of the most amazing things for the Monarch butterflies is that some species are migratory and fly over 2,200 miles (3,540 km) every autumn from the cold north of United States and Canada to warmer areas such as California, Florida and Mexico. Monarch butterflies of thousands will settle in the same generation of trees for generation. However, these habitats are shrinking and inspiring nature to work to book some of these areas to ensure the survival of the monarch butterfly.
Monarch larvae released reports in 1999 when the published message in Nature timefromSU showed that pollen from genetically modified (GM) "B.T. Corn" killed caterpillars. .
The bright colors of the Monarch butterfly are what the predators warn against the poison that holds. A bird that takes the swing of the wings, vomit and remember that this clearly colored insect does not try again. For this reason, the unstable North American Viceroy butterfly (Limenitis Archippus) adapted to look almost exactly like a monarch!