Posts Tagged: Danaus plexippus
Monarchs on the Move: A Migration and a Bohart Museum Open House
It's Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 1 and a female monarch butterfly flutters into our...
A female monarch butterfly sipping nectar from a tropical milkweed on Wednesday, Nov. 1 in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The female monarch spreads her wings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A little flight fuel and the monarch is off to an overwintering site along coastal California. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Got a Question About Monarch Butterflies? Bohart Open House on Nov. 4
Want to talk to a scientist about monarch butterflies? Then you'll want to attend...
A monarch butterfly nectaring on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Wings up! A monarch takes flight in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
In Review Article, Louie Yang Suggests Guidelines for Western Monarch Conservation
UC Davis community ecologist Louie Yang, a UC Davis Department of Entomology...
A male monarch nectaring on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A female monarch nectaring on lavender in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Research: What a Monarch-Milkweed Interaction Project in North Davis Revealed
Newly published UC Davis research investigating wild monarch-native milkweed interactions in rural...
This is part of Professor Louie Yang's research site in north Davis. The team investigated monarch/milkweed interactions over a three-year period. (Photo by Larry Snyder)
A monarch nectaring on native milkweed, Asclepias fascicularis, also known as the narrow-leafed milkweed, at the UC Davis research site. (Photo by Larry Snyder)
A hungry monarch caterpillar munching on native milkweed, Asclepias fascicularis, at the UC Davis research site. (Photo by Larry Snyder)
Seen Any Monarchs Lately?
Seen any monarchs lately? No, not the British royal family: the monarch butterfly, Danaus...
A territorial male bee, Melissodes agilis, targets a monarch nectaring on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in July 2020 in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A territorial male bee, Melissodes agilis, confronts a monarch nectaring on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in July 2020, in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)