Welcome to the monarch library! Our goal is to include all peer-reviewed articles on monarch biology with links to sites that will give you the easiest direct access to each article. Please contact leslie.ries@georgetown.edu if you 1) know of an article not included, 2) find a mistake in any of the listed articles, 3) know of a better link to access an article. Thanks! With your help we can provide the most complete, informative access to all papers on monarch biology.
Library
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.
* Full list
984 result(s)
Category: Monarch research, GMO/toxins
Type: Article
Year: 2001
Oberhauser KS, Prysby MD, Mattila HR, Stanley-Horn DE, Sears MK, Dively G, Olson E, Pleasants JM, Lam WKF, Hellmich RL. 2001. Temporal and spatial overlap between monarch larvae and corn pollen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States 98(21): 11913-11918.
Category: Supporting research, Habitat
Type: Article
Year: 2001
Peralta MG, Wolf JHD. 2001. Commercial bryophyte harvesting in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, Sierra Chincua, Michoacan, Mexico. Bryologist 104: 517-521.
Category: Monarch research, GMO/toxins
Type: Article
Year: 2001
Zangerl AR, McKenna D, Wraight CL, Carroll M, Ficarello P, Warner R, Berenbaum MR. 2001. Effects of exposure to event 176 Bacillus thuringiensis corn pollen on monarch and black swallowtail caterpillars under field conditions. Proceedings of the National
Category: Monarch research, Resource use
Type: Article
Year: 2001
Zalucki MP, Malcolm SB, Paine TD, Hanlon CC, Brower LP, Clarke AR. 2001. It's the first bites that count: Survival of first-instar monarchs on milkweeds. Austral Ecology 26: 547-555.
Category: Monarch research, Resource use
Type: Article
Year: 2001
Zalucki MP, Brower LP, Alonso A. 2001. Detrimental effects of latex and cardiac glycosides on survival and growth of first-instar monarch butterfly larvae Danaus plexippus feeding on the sandhill milkweed Asclepias humistrata. Ecological Entomology 26: 21
Category: Monarch research, GMO/toxins
Type: Article
Year: 2001
Sears MK, Hellmich RL, Stanley-Horn DE, Oberhauser KS, Pleasants JM, Mattila HR, Siegfried BD, Dively GP. 2001. Impact of Bt corn pollen on monarch butterfly populations: A risk assessment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States 98(21): 11937–11942.
Category: Monarch research, Natural enemies
Type: Article
Year: 2001
Altizer SM. 2001. Migratory behaviour and host-parasite co-evolution in natural populations of monarch butterflies infected with a protozoan parasite. Evolutionary Ecology Research 3: 611-632.
Category: Commentary or review, GMO/toxins
Type: Article
Year: 2001
Brower LP. 2001. Canary in the cornfield: the monarch and the Bt corn controversy. Orion Magazine 20: 32-41.
Category: Monarch research, GMO/toxins
Type: Article
Year: 2001
Tschenn J, Losey JE, Jesse LH, Obrycki JJ, Hufbauer R. 2001. Effects of corn plants and corn pollen on monarch butterfly (Lepidoptera : Danaidae) oviposition behavior. Environmental Entomology 30: 495-500.
Category: Monarch research, Natural enemies
Type: Article
Year: 2001
Clarke AR, Zalucki MP. 2001. Taeniogonalos raymenti Carmean & Kimsey (Hymenoptera : Trigonalidae) reared as a hyperparasite of Sturmia convergens (Weidemann) (Diptera : Tachinidae), a primary parasite of Danaus plexippus (L.) (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae).
Category: Monarch research, Evolution/range
Type: Article
Year: 2000
Stimson J, Kasuya M. 2000. Decline in the frequency of the white morph of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus plexippus L., Nymphalidae) on Oahu, Hawaii. Journal-Lepidopterists Society 54: 29.
Category: Monarch research, Natural enemies
Type: Article
Year: 2000
Altizer SM, Oberhauser KS, Brower LP. 2000. Associations between host migration and the prevalence of a protozoan parasite in natural populations of adult monarch butterflies. Ecological Entomology 25: 125-139.
Category: Environmental performance
Type: Article
Year: 2000
Dunlap B, Hannigan A, Petersen C, Boettcher C, Bradbury S, Evans J, Keith A, Nelson S, Warber J. 2000. The Effect of Humidity on the Egg Development and Survivorship of the Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) Monarch Lab website: http://www. monarchlab.org/research/GD/Chan.html. Accessed 9.13 2004.
Category: Monarch research, Natural enemies
Type: Article
Year: 2000
Watts CH. 2000. Predation of monarch butterfly larvae by ants. Weta 22: 20.
Category: Techniques
Type: Article
Year: 2000
Taylor OR, Aschenbach TA, Ashworth SM, Komar O, Spotts WW, Williamson S. 2000. Magnetic compass orientation of monarch butterflies (Lepidoptera : Danaidae : Danaus plexippus L.): Did observer effects lead to false positive results? Journal of the Kansas E
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This database is a work in progress and is likely to contain several omissions and mistakes.
Please contact leslie.ries@georgetown.edu with any additions or corrections.