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The Viceroy is a poisonous butterfly, just like the Monarch. The confusion about the Viceroy toxicity comes from 19th century ideas about mimicry. Unfortunately, entymologists failed to test the theory until 1991. Even today many text books erroneously discuss the Viceroy as non-toxic. The Monarch was early identified as poisonous and entymologists immediately assumed the Viceroy was not. However, after testing, the Viceroy Butterfly is at least at toxic as the Monarch. The question is - which is the immitation? The Viceroy Butterfly is almost indistinguishable from the Monarch Butterfly.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoNo. Adult Monarch Butterflies feed almost solely on nectar and are called nectarivores.
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∙ 12y agoI do not think so because it eats a type of
weed it is called milkweed.It has a poisonous sap that if you taste it will be biter.Thats why birds avoid them the monarch and the queen
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∙ 8y agoMilkweed butterflies are toxic because they only ate milkweed as caterpillars. So birds avoid them.
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∙ 15y agoNo butterflies are completely harmless.
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∙ 13y agoa monarch is poisonous
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monarch butterfly
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no they are harmless
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What is Viceroy Butterfly?
the viceroy butterfly is a butterfly that mimics the monarch butterfly
Do you capitalize Monarch Butterfly or Monarch butterfly?
monarch butterfly
