Japanese beetles’ feeding on milkweed flowers may compromise efforts to restore monarch butterfly habitat
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Milkweed Matters: Monarch Butterfly (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) Survival and Development on Nine Midwestern Milkweed Species
The population of monarch butterflies east of the Rocky Mountains has experienced a significant decline over the past 20 yr. In order to increase monarch numbers in the breeding range, habitat restoration that includes planting milkweed plants is essential. Milkweeds in the genus Asclepias and Cynanchum are the only host plants for larval monarch butterflies in North America, but larval perform...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scientific Reports
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-30731-z