An Evaluation of Butterfly Gardens for Restoring Habitat for the Monarch Butterfly (Lepidoptera: Danaidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1328-1335

  Cutting, Brian T ^a,b   Tallamy, Douglas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Danaus plexippus; garden; insect conservation; milkweed; Monarch

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; HABITAT RESTORATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MIGRATORY SPECIES; OVERWINTERING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL;

NORTH AMERICA;

ASCLEPIAS; ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA; DANAINAE; DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

ANIMAL; ASCLEPIAS; BUTTERFLY; ECOSYSTEM; EGG LAYING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; GARDENING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; OVUM; PENNSYLVANIA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; ASCLEPIAS; BUTTERFLIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GARDENING; LARVA; OVIPOSITION; OVUM; PENNSYLVANIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84949759518     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: 19382936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/nvv111     Document Type: Article

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