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Milkweed butterfly   /mˈɪlkwˌid bˈətərflˌaɪ/   Listen
Milkweed butterfly

noun
1.
Large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed.  Synonyms: Danaus plexippus, monarch, monarch butterfly.






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"Milkweed butterfly" Quotes from Famous Books



... believed to migrate to the Gulf States, and beyond at the approach of cold weather, as regularly as the birds, traveling in numbers so vast that the naked trees on which they pause to rest appear to be still decked with autumnal foliage. This milkweed butterfly "is a great migrant," says Dr. Holland, "and within quite recent years, with Yankee instinct, has crossed the Pacific, probably on merchant vessels, the chrysalids being possibly concealed in bales of hay, and has found lodgment in Australia where it has greatly multiplied ...
— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan



Words linked to "Milkweed butterfly" :   danaid butterfly, Danaus plexippus, monarch butterfly, genus Danaus, Danaus, danaid



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