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SUBMITTER: Baker AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6092377 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Baker Adam M AM Potter Daniel A DA
Scientific reports 20180814 1
The eastern North American migratory population of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) is in serious decline. Habitat restoration, including adding millions of host plants to compensate for loss of milkweed in US cropland, is a key part of the international conservation strategy to return this iconic butterfly to sustainable status. We report here that Popillia japonica, a polyphagous, invasive beetle, aggregates and feeds on flowers of Asclepias syriaca, the monarch's most important larval f ...[more]