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
996 result(s)
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1981
Turunen S, Chippendale GM. 1981. Lipid transport in the migrating monarch butterfly, Danaus-p-plexippus. Experientia 37: 266-268.
Category: Other
Type: Article
Year: 1981
Wells PH, Chaplin SB. 1981. Energy reserves and metabolic expenditures of overwintering monarch butterflies. American Zoologist 21: 918-918.
Category: Monarch research, Environmental performance
Type: Article
Year: 1981
Zalucki MP. 1981. The effects of age and weather on egg-laying in danaus-plexippus L (Lepidoptera, Danaidae).Researches on Population Ecology 23: 318-327.
Category: Monarch research, Evolution/range
Type: Article
Year: 1980
Clarke CA, Rothschild M. 1980. A new mutant of Danaus plexippus ssp. erippus (Cramer). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 34: 224.
Category: Monarch research, Evolution/range
Type: Article
Year: 1980
Toft S. 1980. First Danish record of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus Linne)(Lepidoptera: Danaidae). Entomologiske Meddelelser 47: 115.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1980
Seiber JN, Tuskes PM, Brower LP, Nelson CJ. 1980. Pharmacodynamics of some individual milkweed cardenolides fed to larvae of the monarch butterfly (Danaus-plexippus L). Journal of Chemical Ecology 6: 321-339.
Category: Other
Type: Article
Year: 1980
Pan ML. 1980. Ecdysterone and vitellogenin synthesis in the monarch butterfly. American Zoologist 20: 902-902.
Category: Other
Type: Article
Year: 1980
Marian MP, Pandian TJ. 1980. Effects of feeding senescent leaf of Calotropis-gigantea on food utilization in the monarch butterfly Danaus-chrysippus. Entomon 5: 257-264.
Category: Monarch research, Migration
Type: Article
Year: 1980
Urquhart FA, Urquhart NR. 1980. Migration studies of the monarch butterfly in North America. Research reports-National Geographic Society.
Category: Monarch research, Migration
Type: Article
Year: 1980
Wise KAJ. 1980. Monarch butterfly dispersal in New Zealand. Rec. Auckland Inst. Muse 17: 157.
Category: Monarch research, Overwinter dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 1979
James DG 1979. Observations on two overwintering clusters of Danaus plexippus (L.) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in the Sydney area during 1978. Australian Entomological Magazine 5: 81-85.
Category: Monarch research, Migration
Type: Article
Year: 1979
Urquhart FA, Urquhart NR. 1979. Vernal migration of the monarch butterfly (Danaus-plexippus p Lepidoptera, Danaidae) in north-america from the overwintering site in the neo-volcanic plateau of Mexico. Canadian Entomologist 111: 15-18.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1979
Dores RM, Dallmann SH, Herman WS. 1979. Regulation of post-eclosion and post-feeding diuresis in the monarch butterfly, Danaus-plexippus. Journal of Insect Physiology 25: 895-901.
Category: Monarch research, Migration
Type: Article
Year: 1979
Gibo DL, Pallett MJ. 1979. Soaring flight of monarch butterflies, Danaus-plexippus (Lepidoptera, Danaidae), during the late summer migration in southern Ontario. Canadian Journal of Zoology-Revue Canadienne De Zoologie 57: 1393-1401.
Category: Other
Type: Article
Year: 1979
Jeffords MR, Sternburg JG, Waldbauer GP. 1979. Batesian mimicry - field demonstration of the survival value of pipevine swallowtail and monarch color patterns. Evolution 33: 275-286.
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