• DOI:10.1046/J.1442-9993.2001.01132.X
Corpus ID: 31186324

It’s the first bites that count: Survival of first‐instar monarchs on milkweeds

@article{Zalucki2001ItsTF,
  title={It’s the first bites that count: Survival of first‐instar monarchs on milkweeds},
  author={M. Zalucki and S. Malcolm and T. Paine and C. Hanlon and L. Brower and A. Clarke},
  journal={Austral Ecology},
  year={2001},
  volume={26},
  pages={547-555}
}

• M. Zalucki, S. Malcolm, +3 authors A. Clarke
• Published 2001
• Biology
• Austral Ecology

Mortality of first instars is generally very high, but variable, and is caused by many factors, including physical and chemical plant characters, weather and natural enemies. Here, a summary of detailed field-based studies of the early-stage survival of a specialist lepidopteran herbivore is presented. First-instar larvae of the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, a milkweed specialist, generally grew faster and survived better on leaves when latex flow was reduced by partial severance of the… Expand

View via Publisher

homepages.wmich.edu

Save to Library

Create Alert

Cite

Launch Research Feed