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Monarch Three-In-One: Adult, Caterpillar, Host Plant - Danaus plexippus
Copyright © 2006 Ron Hemberger

Monarch Three-In-One: Adult, Caterpillar, Host Plant - Danaus plexippus
Fullerton Arboretum, Fullerton, Orange County, California, USA
November 12, 2006
The adult and juvenile are on a kind of milkweed plant, which is also playing host to some large milkweed bugs.

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Contributed by Ron Hemberger on 12 November, 2006 - 8:35pm
Last updated 10 December, 2007 - 6:27pm

Asclepias curassavica
The host plant seems to be Asclepias curassavica, the tropical milkweed.
… Beatriz Moisset, 2 March, 2007 - 7:31am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Beatriz
I really should start learning Latin names. We have two more kinds of thin leaved milkweed and a so-called "Indian" milkweed with the thick leaves and pods of the kind I knew in Ohio.
… Ron Hemberger, 2 March, 2007 - 11:39am login or register to post comments

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