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
995 result(s)
Category: Monarch research, Natural enemies
Type: Article
Year: 1990
Glendinning JI, Brower LP, Montgomery CA. 1990. Responses of three mouse species to deterrent chemicals in the monarch butterfly. I. Taste and toxicity tests using artificial diets laced with digitoxin or monocrotaline. Chemoecology 1: 114.
Category: Other
Type: Article
Year: 1989
Wells H, Wells PH, Cook P. 1989. The relation of monarch butterfly (Danaus-plexippus) overwinter aggregations to successful reproduction. American Zoologist 29: A28-A28.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1989
Carter PA, Hughes JM, Zalucki MP. 1989. Genetic-variation in a continuously breeding population of Danaus-plexippus l - an examination of heterozygosity at 4 loci in relation to activity times. Heredity 63: 191-194.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1989
Lessman CA, Herman WS, Schooley DA, Tsai LW, Bergot BJ, Baker FC. 1989. Detection of juvenile hormone I, II and III in adult monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus). Insect Biochemistry 19: 431-433.
Category: Monarch research, Evolution/range
Type: Article
Year: 1989
Owen DF, Smith DAS. 1989. Utilization of alien Asclepiadaceae as larval food-plants by Danaus plexippus (L.) (Lepidoptera: Danaidae) on the Atlantic Islands. Entomologist 108: 158.
Category: Commentary or review
Type: Article
Year: 1989
Malcolm SB, Brower LP. 1989. Evolutionary and ecological implications of cardenolide sequestration in the monarch butterfly. Experientia 45: 284-295.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1989
Odinokov VN, Kukovinets OS, Sakharova NI, Tolstikov GA. 1989. Ozonolysis of alkenes and study of reactions of polyfunctional compounds. 37. synthesis of acyclic (e,e)-2, 6-diene alpha, omega-bifunctional terpenoid components of sexual pheromone of Danaus-plexippus and Danaus-chrysippus males. Zhurnal Organicheskoi Khimii 25: 29-33.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1989
Oberhauser KS. 1989. Effects of spermatophores on male and female monarch butterfly reproductive success. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 25: 237-246.
Category: Monarch research, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 1989
Hilburn DJ. 1989. A non-migratory, non-diapausing population of the monarch butterfly, Danas plexippus (Lepidoptera: Danaidae), in Bermuda. Florida Entomologist 72: 494.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1989
Herman, WS, Brower, LP, Calvert, WH. 1989. Reproductive tract development in monarch butterflies overwintering in California and Mexico. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 43: 50-58.
Category: Other
Type: Article
Year: 1989
Saiff EI, Macbeth N. 1989. Be cautious, Bates - what did the viceroy look like before it began to imitate the monarch. Rivista Di Biologia-Biology Forum 82: 247-252.
Category: Commentary or review
Type: Article
Year: 1989
White DS, Sexton OJ. 1989. The monarch butterfly (Lepidoptera, Danaidae) as prey for the dragonfly Hagenius-brevistylus (Odonata, Gomphidae). Entomological News 100: 129-132.
Category: Monarch research, Resource use
Type: Article
Year: 1989
Zalucki MP, Oyeyele S, Vowles P. 1989. Selective Oviposition by Danaus Plexippus (l.) (lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in a Mixed Stand of Asclepias Fruticosa and a. Curassavica in Southeast Queensland. Australian Journal of Entomology 28: 141.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1989
Malcolm SB, Cockrell BJ, Brower LP. 1989. Cardenolide fingerprint of monarch butterflies reared on common milkweed, Asclepias-syriaca-L. Journal of Chemical Ecology 15: 819-853.
Category: Commentary or review
Type: Article
Year: 1988
Troubridge JT. 1988. A program for the protection of the eastern population of the monarch butterfly, Danaus-plexippus-plexippus, (Lepidoptera, Danaidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Ontario 119: 91-91.
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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.