Visual and olfactory sensory systems employed by monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) to locate their milkweed host plants
Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) are well known to depend almost exclusively on milkweed (genus Asclepias) host plants for oviposition sites, as their larvae need to ingest compounds critical for adult butterfly chemical defense against predators. Many phytophagous insects make fast and accur...
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2007
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1974/503 |