Opening a window on southwestern monarchs: fall migrant monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus (L.), tagged synchronously in southeastern Arizona migrate to overwintering regions in either southern California or central Mexico

First Author: 

  • Billings

Type: 

  • Article

Year: 

2019

Source: 

  • Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society

Category: 

  • Evolution/range, Orientation, Migration

Full Reference: 

Billings, J. 2019. Opening a window on southwestern Monarchs: fall migrant Monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus (L.), tagged synchronously in southeastern Arizona migrate to overwintering regions in either southern California or central Mexico. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 73(4):257-267.

Study Setting: 

  • Field

Geographic Focus: 

  • Western Overwintering

Monitoring Data Used: 

Western Monarch Counts

Field Definitions

First author: Last name of the first author
Type: Article or book chapter
Year: Publication year
Source: Journal or book
Category*: Broad scope of the publication.
Research topic (monarch & supporting research only)*: Specific topic.
Geographic focus*: Geographic setting for field studies.
Monitoring data used: Data from monitoring or public data efforts.
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