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The monarch butterfly? They eat milkweed.

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Why does the monarch butterfly live in the grassland?

The Monarch butterfly lives in the grassland for a short period, to try to stay warm until it goes to California, then Mexico. The grassland also has many milkweed plants like; the Mexican milkweed, and the Milkweed you see in Texas.


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The viceroy butterfly does not eat milkweed, it is a mimic of the monarch butterfly which does eat milkweed. The milkweed makes the monarch butterfly toxic to birds. Once a bird eats its first monarch butterfly it gets so sick that it learns to never try to eat anything that looks like a monarch butterfly ever again. The viceroy butterfly has evolved to mimic the monarch butterfly to avoid being eaten by birds that have previously tried eating a monarch butterfly.


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The monarch butterfly migrates to Mexico for the winter.


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What are the monarch butterflies closes relatives?

Monarch butterflies are large, black and orange in color with white spots. Monarch butterflies closest relatives are the milkweed butterflies.


Does the milkweed plant and the monarch caterpillar depend on each other?

Monarch butterflies will only lay their eggs on milkweed because it is their hostplant. A hostplant is the plant that the caterpillar will eat when it hatches from its egg. So, the monarch caterpillar will only eat milkweed, and the monarch butterfly will only lay its eggs on milkweed. The monarch depends in the milkweed, the milkweed does not depend on the monarch butterflies.