NOUN
- large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed
How To Use monarch butterfly In A Sentence
- Spotted sipping on the wild ageratum, Conoclinium coelestinum, is our first image of a monarch butterfly this season. Whoa Nellie!* « Fairegarden
- The most incredible butterfly journey, measured in thousands of miles compared with our painted lady's few hundred mile trip, belongs to the monarch butterfly of North America.
- The monarch butterfly migration is one of the natural world's great spectacles. Times, Sunday Times
- For example, the pollen of modified crops had already been shown to be poisonous to monarch butterfly larvae.
- The monarch butterfly migration is one of the natural world's great spectacles. Times, Sunday Times
- The year my father was born, 1888, he claimed to have proved that the monarch butterfly is mimicked by the viceroy butterfly. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
- Honey-bees glided over the roses and a monarch butterfly flew over the fence to land on a wing of the cherub.
- Last May a study published by Cornell University showed that pollen from some strains of corn with built-in pesticides can kill the larva of the Monarch butterfly, a pest by nobody's standards.
- Both the caterpillar and adult of the monarch butterfly are distasteful to their enemies.
- The caterpillars of the monarch butterfly, surprisingly, are able to feed on milkweed without taking any of these precautions.
