Monarch+Butterfly+Period+5

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 * Research Q & A on Monarch Butterfly:**

1. **Where does your animal live, and what are its characteristics?**  Monarch butterflies migrate in the winter to Florida, off the coast of Texas, and in Mexico, and then return to the north in spring. ** Monarch butterfly of Canada and the United States migrates to places where the climate is less extreme. Winters are too cold in the places where the butterflies reproduce; Monarchs would not be able to withstand either heavy snowfall or the lack of plants on which larvae caterpillars feed.The Monarch heads south each fall, where it will have to cope with a greater chance of survival as well as the chance to "return" to reproductive sites in North America and give rise to future generations of reproductive adults that will complete the annual cycle.   The monarch butterflies will spend their summer either in the New England-Great Lakes area, or else in the canyons of the eastern Rocky Mountains. The Great Lakes population will migrate southwest in the fall, and spend the winter in the Sierra Madre mountains of central Mexico. population which spends its summers in the Rocky Mountains will migrate in California igrate to  **Include all subspecies or varieties of your animal** Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropodia Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Dannidae Genus: Dannaus Species: Dannaus plexippus -The Monarch butterfly is known as //Danaus plexippus// which means sleepy transorfation in the Greek language. two pair of brilliant orange-reddish wings, featuring black veins and white spots along the edges. Their wingspan is about four inches and weigh less than an ounce. Males monarchs who have distinguishing black dots along the veins of their wings which are slightly larger than the females'.
 * Locate your animal’s habitat (Where does it live? Does it migrate?)
 * Identify at least 10 characteristics that will give an in-depth, accurate description of your animal**

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(3, 2, 2)"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(57, 84, 213)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(61, 63, 230)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> -The larvae are striped with black, white, and yellow. ======

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(3, 2, 2)"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(57, 84, 213)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(61, 63, 230)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> -The pupae are green with a gold stripe near their silk point. ======

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(3, 2, 2)"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(57, 84, 213)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(61, 63, 230)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> -The black edges of the wings are dotted with white spots. ======

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(3, 2, 2)"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(57, 84, 213)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(61, 63, 230)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> -The adult monarch butterfly is orange with black stripes coming from the wings to their thorax. ======

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(3, 2, 2)"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(57, 84, 213)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(61, 63, 230)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> -Males have a black scent patch on a vein across the middle of the hind wing. ====== <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(3, 2, 2)"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(61, 63, 230)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(57, 84, 213)"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> - <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">     <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> The monarch is a medium sized butterfly. -Because the Monarch Butterfly is a poisonous buttefly, the Viceroy Butterfly changes itself to look like a monarch butterfly to avoid being killed. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">- It is the state butterfly of Illinois, West Virginia, Vermont, Texas, Minnesota, and Idaho. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(57, 84, 213)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> Locate where it is endangered (might not be endangered in all its habitats)** The monarch butterfly is endangered in some parts of Mexico. In Mexico, monarch butterflies are endangered because the butterflies also suffer from illnesses and infections that can be fatal. And they must face other dangers including bad weather, hunting of them by birds during hibernation, and big losses in the population due to winter storms.
 * 2. Where and why is your animal endangered?
 * Identify the factors, environmental and/or anthropogenic (caused by man) that cause it to be endangered**
 * Provide statistics and other facts related to its endangerment

3. Where is your animal in captivity and/or conserved? Locate at least two zoos and/or conservation centers where the animal is held.** One zoo that supports and helps the conservation of monarch butterflies is the San Diego Zoo. Also, the Butterfly Conservation Center was made because two Peruvian scientists wanted to create the first Peruvian Butterfly Farm. The San Diego Zoo, the Monarch Watch, and the BFCI hosted a workshop teaching people about monarch butterflies and why they're endangered. The San Diego Zoo delivered 100 guides written in to Spanish to a region in Mexico, where the monarchs butterflies are mostly found. This is so the people in Mexico will know about the monarch butterflies and how they’re endangered. In March of 2005, the San Diego Zoo, the BFCI, and the Monarch Watch hosted a workshop called Creating Successful Butterfly Conservation Education and Outreach Programs. The groups guiding some of the workshops and research groups are the San Diego Zoo, the Monarch Watch, and the BFCI. The Sand Diego Zoo and also the Oklohoma Zoo also help to support the conservation of the monarch butterflies. The Smithsonian National Zoo Park also supports the migration of the monarch butterflies.
 * 4. What is being done to restore your animal’s populations? Where is it being done?**
 * Locate where research is done on your animal and where efforts are underway to conserve its population (Note: It may be that this is done at the same location(s) you identified in #3)**
 * Identify the experts, leaders, and/or groups guiding the conservation**
 * Outline any research and efforts to conserve the population

Photos of the captivating Monarch Buterfly:



Photo taken by Rob and Jane

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Photo by Ben Lumin http://flickr.com/photos/lenblumin/2216557509/

Photo By Brian Hatchcock http://flickr.com/photos/ception/261532043/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/photons/113607115/ Photo taken by:

[|Airplane Lane's]
http://lovettscience7.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/Great_lakes.jpg Photot taken by

[|Claude@Munich's]
Videos on the Monarch Butterfly:

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Video by:** [|**HighFlyingDutchman**]
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This link below goes straight to our Google Earth Tour of the Monarch Butterfly: [|monarch butterfly5 goog;e earth.kmz]

Here are some videos on the Monarch Butterfly's Metamorhphosis and also the conservations in Mexico City: Video on TeacherTube.com http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=54ca7b00b5df21716b0c Video on YouTube.com http://youtube.com/watch?v=y0S30RoQA3M&feature=related Video on YouTube.com http://youtube.com/watch?v=y0S30RoQA3M&feature=related A video of the Monarch Caterpillar/Butterfly hatching out of its egg: Video on YouTube.com http://youtube.com/watch?v=1Vw4-FnAtgw&feature=related Monarch Caterpillar to Chrysalis Timelapse Video on YouTube.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY-Fiyq8jc4&feature=related Monarch Caterpillar coming out of cocoon Video on YouTube.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B5Cybk0YGE&feature=related PICTURES: http://flickr.com/photos/ception/261532043/** http://flickr.com/photos/lenblumin/2216557509/ <span style="color: rgb(107, 104, 232)">[|**http://www.flickr.com/photos/jane_kirkland/1394016373/**] <span style="color: rgb(107, 104, 232)">[|**http://www.flickr.com/photos/bestrated1/52666376/**] <span style="color: rgb(107, 104, 232)">[|****http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimcrotty/1331801536/****] <span style="color: rgb(107, 104, 232)"><span style="color: rgb(21, 14, 14)">**VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B5Cybk0YGE&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY-Fiyq8jc4&feature=related** http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=54ca7b00b5df21716b0c http://youtube.com/watch?v=y0S30RoQA3M&feature=related http://youtube.com/watch?v=1Vw4-FnAtgw&feature=related http://youtube.com/watch?v=y0S30RoQA3M&feature=related <span style="color: rgb(163, 30, 235)">[|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVxFZwcH528&feature=related </span]> http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/finder/monarchbutterflies/item3004.html <span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(182, 12, 85)">[|http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/monarch_butterfly.htm <span] style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: #b60c55">- The Monarch Butterfly <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none"><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(182, 12, 85)"> **<span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(182, 12, 85)">[|http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/species/Monarch.shtml <span] style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: #b60c55">- Monarch Butterfly http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Invertebrates/News/monarchmigration.cfm- Monarch Butterfly Migration <span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(182, 12, 85)">[|http://www.butterflyrecovery.org/</span <span] style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: #b60c55">- The Butterfly Conservation Initiative <span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(182, 12, 85)">[|http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/species/monarchbutterfly/ <span] style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: #b60c55">- Monarch (//Danaus plexippus)//
 * Bibliography (All Resources Used)
 * <span style="color: rgb(33, 12, 44)">WEBSITES:

<span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(19, 6, 12)">BOOKS: <span style="color: rgb(51, 148, 107)">Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia Volume 3: Michael Hutchins-Series Editor

DATABASES: <span style="color: rgb(221, 119, 29)">Encyclopedia Brittanica- <span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(182, 12, 85)">[|http://school.eb.com/all/eb/article-9053309?query=monarch%20butterfly&ct=null <span] style="COLOR: #dd771d"> b