What do you know about the monarch buterfly?

Question

ancesters, adaptation,lacation?

anything will help

Answer 1

They are prevalent in North America.  And are the only butterfly that migrates.  They live as far north as the Canadian borders in the summertime, and in March, they congregate around Morelia, Mexico.  Pretty intense migration for a butterfly!

They eat milkweed.

Ancestors?  no idea.

That milkweed makes them taste really nasty to the birds who might eat them, and they have a mimic, the viceroy, which DO taste sweet, but the birds often avoid them, thinking that they are Monarchs.

More information...try looking up Monarch butterfly on google.

Answer 2

I would suggest doing a search on the internet.  Here are a few links from Google:

http://www.monarch-butterfly.com/

http://www.monarchbutterflyusa.com/Cycle...

http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/fin...

best of luck to you!

Answer 3

The monarch is a brushfooted butterfly of the Danainae subfamily. It is perhaps the most well-known of all North American butterflies. Since the 19th century, it is also found in New Zealand, and has been known in Australia since 1871. In Australia it is also known as the wanderer butterfly. In Europe it is resident in the Canary Islands and Madeira, and is found as a migrant in Russia, Azores, Sweden and Spain.

Monarchs are caterpillars for a couple of weeks. They spend that time eating milkweed leaves. After eating their fill of milkweed, the caterpillar forms a shiny green and gold speckled crysalis. This is the pupal stage. After about 14 days, the adult monarch butterfly emerges from its crysalis. The Aztec believed the adult Monarch butterflies to be the incarnation of their fallen warriors, wearing the colors of battle.

As the weather gets colder, monarchs begin their annual migration. Tens of millions of these butterflies spend the winter in a mountain forest in Central Mexico. Monarchs sometimes cover whole trees of eucalyptus and pine groves. In the spring they will make the long journy back north, and lay eggs along the way. When these eggs hatch into caterpillars, the whole cycle starts over again.

http://www.monarchbutterflyusa.com/MBUSA...

http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/monarch_bu...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_but...

Answer 4

This is the ROYALTY section!Your question has absolutely nothing to do with the monarchy past or present. Perhaps if you were to post this question in the SCIENCE threads,under zoology or biology,you'd get more helpful answers.