- well-known
migratory species include the
painted lady and
several of the
danaine butterflies.
Spectacular and large-scale
migrations ****ociated with the...
- establishment. Many butterflies, such as the
painted lady, monarch, and
several danaine migrate for long distances.
These migrations take
place over a
number of...
- (snout butterflies,
earlier treated as the
distinct family Libytheidae) The
danaine clade (basal)
Danainae (milkweed butterflies,
earlier treated as the distinct...
-
cases of
canine death due to over-ingestion of this
toxic plant. Some
danaine butterflies, such as male
queen butterflies,
visit these plants, being...
- to be
responsible for the
unpalatability of D. chrysippus.
Adult male
danaines often feed on
plants containing pyrrolizidine alkaloids, and
although females...
- use for male
butterflies can be
demonstrated through observation of male
danaine butterflies congregating in
large numbers at
alkaloid producing plants...
-
supplies poisonous glycosides which render both
caterpillar and
adult danaines noxious. Ithomiines, in
contrast gain
their toxicity from
their adult nectar...
-
Graphium thule is not
common but not
known to be threatened. It
mimics the
danaines Ideopsis juventa and
Tirumala hamata.
There is one
subspecies felixi Joicey...
- the
family Asclepiadaceae. The
butterflies also
congregate with
other danaines to sip from the sap of Crotalaria,
Heliotropium and
other plants which...
- Jaegeri,
Danaus Cleophile and
Lycoriea cleobaea from
Jamaica (Nymphalide:
Danaine)".
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 46 (4): 273–279.
Markku Savela...
