Monarch Butterfly Food Web
You can see it coiled under its head when not in use.
Monarch butterfly food web. The monarch butterfly is in the nymphalidae family and in the danaini tribe in a food web the monarch butterfly is considered as a herbivore. The wild carrot the red clover thistles and the alfalfa plant are all great food sources. For information on the food source of the monarch caterpillar please click on milkweed. You now understand why it is important to protect and do our best to protect the monarch butterfly species from extinction.
The climate is warm. These web pages below present the iconic monarch butterfly at various stages of its life. You must be taking an ecology class or have an excellent science teacher. Food chain who eats them.
In addition much of the land is forests and mountains. Photos videos and information with links to relevant resources are provided throughout those pages. Everything you wanted to know on monarch butterflies and milkweed. Adult monarch butterflies sip nectar from flowering plants using a sucking tube that resembles a soda straw and is called a proboscis.
Not only do the earnest flutterers fly up to 265 miles a day on their trek between northern and southern climes but they must do so in the face of a number of. Like every other butterfly species monarch butterflies are herbivores. Black headed gross back. The adult monarch butterfly is relatively large.
Where does the monarch butterfly fit in the food web is it is considered poisonous by its predators due to the fact that it eats milkweed. What is climate like. The land is grassy has many trees and is abundant in milkweed a plant that monarch butterflies feed on. It therefore needs to feed on flowers that are all large with flat surfaces that they can perch or sit on while feeding.
Besides flowers some other plants also serve as sources of food for the monarch butterfly. Well you need not wander far. Pity the monarch butterflies. Monarch butterflies do not live in extreme climates.
In other words young monarchs feed on the leaves of milkweed plants while nectar plants suit the taste buds of the adult monarchs.