Monarch Butterfly
Genus: DanausSpecies:
plexippus Interesting facts about the
Monarch butterfly:
The Monarch’s bright colors mean that the monarch is dangerous to eat. The monarch can lay 400 eggs. The monarch lays the eggs on a milkweed leave. The caterpillar eats its own egg case and shed skin. The caterpillar develops by eating milk weed leaves.
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Food Chain
The sun gives light to the milkweed.
The milkweed gives food to the monarch butterfly.
The monarch butterfly gets eaten by the wasp.
The wasp gets eaten by the spider.
Food Web
Sun
Milkweed
Monarchbutterfly
Wasp
Spider
Description
• The monarch butterfly lives in Texas, California and Mexico.
• Monarch butterflies migrate.
• The eggs take 14 days to hatch.
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