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Monarch

Danaus plexippus

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45.5042, -75.4936

Field Notes

Description:

Orange wings with black veins, double row of white spots on black wing borders, on hindwings of males specialized scales form a black spot along a vein.

Habitat:

Joe Pye Weed next to a canal marsh of an island.

Notes:

Conservation Status: imperiled (S2N,S4B) in Ontario, CA (NatureServe)

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PublishedAugust 19, 2018

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