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Monarch Vs. Viceroy Butterflies

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Updated June 11, 2014

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Monarch Butterflies, Viceroy Butterflies, and Mimicry

Connections to the Course

Anmol, Ayah, Jessika

Loss of Milkweed

Milkweed contains cardenolides, a steroid that is a cardiac arrester and toxic to predators
Predators throw up when they eat monarch butterflies and learn not to eat them
Viceroy population survives by mimicry

loss of milkweed due to herbicides
only plant that monarch caterpillars feed on
estimated 90% decline in population in last year
also effects mimicry

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/monarch/Predation.html

http://www.wildflowersofontario.ca/milkweed.html

Mullerian Mimcry

http://www.bigblogofgardening.com/home-gardeners-can-save-the-monarch-butterfly-with-milkweed/

when mimic is also well defended as the model
if the viceroy butterfly is also unpalatable

melvynyeo.deviantart.com/art/batesian-mimicry-320872230

http://www.dendrobates.org/imitator.html

Batesian Mimcry

http://www.stmary.ws/highschool/science/APBIO/Populations/defense_mechanisms.htm

model is more highly defended then mimic
monarch butterfly is the model
viceroy butterfly is the mimic

http://networkofideas.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/the-monarch-butterfly-vs-the-viceroy/

Background Info

monarch caterpillars feed on bitter leaves of milkweed plants
they store the bitter chemicals from the plant
makes monarch butterflies tolerant to milkweed and unpalatable to predators
viceroy butterfly has same colouration , but tasty to predators

http://whyfiles.org/129sci_fable/4.html

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