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, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1984
Rothschild M, Moore BP, Brown WV. 1984. Pyrazines as warning odor components in the monarch butterfly, Danaus-plexippus, and in moths of the genera Zygaena and Amata (Lepidoptera). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 23: 375-380.
The dynamics of adult Danaus plexippus L.(Danaidae) within patches of its food plant, Asclepias spp.
Category: Monarch research, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 1984
Zalucki MP, Kitching RL. 1984. The dynamics of adult Danaus plexippus L.(Danaidae) within patches of its food plant, Asclepias spp. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society (USA).
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1984
Rogers SH, Wells H. 1984. The structure and function of the bursa copulatrix of the monarch butterfly (Danaus-plexippus). Journal of Morphology 180: 213-221.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1984
Marty MA, Krieger RI. 1984. Metabolism of uscharidin, a milkweed cardenolide, by tissue-homogenates of monarch butterfly larvae, Danaus-plexippus L. Journal of Chemical Ecology 10: 945-956.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1984
James DG. 1984. Phenology of weight, moisture and energy reserves of Australian monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus. Ecological Entomology 9: 421.
Category: Monarch research, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 1984
James DG. 1984. Population and General Biology of Non-Reproductive Colonies of the Monarch Butterfly, Danaus Plexippus (L.)(Lepidoptera: Danaidae) in New South Wales. Australian journal of zoology 32: 663.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1984
Brower LP, Seiber JN, Nelson CJ, Lynch SP, Hoggard MP, Cohen JA. 1984. Plant-determined variation in the cardenolide content, thin-layer chromatography profiles, and emetic potency of monarch butterflies, Danaus-plexippus reared on the milkweed,Asclepias eriocarpa in California. Journal of Chemical Ecology 8:579-633.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1984
Brower LP, Seiber JN, Nelson CJ, Lynch SP, Holland MM. 1984. Plant-determined variation in the cardenolide content, thin-layer chromatography profiles, and emetic potency of monarch butterflies, Danaus-plexippus L (Lepidoptera, Danaidae) reared on milkwee
Category: Overwinter dynamics, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 1984
Calvert WH, Zuchowski W, Brower LP. 1984. Monarch butterfly conservation: interactions of cold weather, forest thinning and storms on the survival of overwintering monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus L.) in Mexico. Atala 9: 2-6.
Category: Monarch research, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 1984
Hughes JM, Zalucki MP. 1984. Genetic-variation in a continuously breeding population of Danaus-plexippus L (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Heredity 52: 1-7.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1984
Lessman CA, Herman WS. 1984. Juvenile-hormone metabolism, binding and esterase-activities in the hemolymph of the adult monarch (Danaus-p-plexippus, Lepidoptera). Insect Biochemistry 14: 445-452.
Category: Monarch research, Migration
Type: Article
Year: 1984
James DG. 1984. Migration and Clustering Phenology of Danaus Plexippus (l.) (lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 23: 199.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1984
Stimson J, Meyers L. 1984. Inheritance and frequency of a color polymorphism in Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera: Danaidae) on Ohahu (sic), Hawaii. J. Res. Lepid 23: 153.
Category: Monarch research, Environmental performance
Type: Article
Year: 1983
Calvert WH, Cohen JA. 1983. The adaptive significance of crawling up onto foliage for the survival of grounded overwintering monarch butterflies (Danaus-plexippus) in Mexico. Ecological Entomology 8: 471-474.
Category: Monarch research, Environmental performance
Type: Article
Year: 1983
Calvert WH, Zuchowski W, Brower LP. 1983. The effect of rain, snow and freezing temperatures on overwintering monarch butterflies in Mexico. Biotropica 15: 42-47.
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