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Danaus plexippus
As usual, eating on Asclepsias curassavica
Spotted on Apr 8, 2012
Submitted on Apr 8, 2012
8 Comments
Nice photographs. I see them all the time in Costa Rica or at least Guanacaste in February and March. Do they have a seasonal cycle in Costa Rica? Here on the east coast in Maryland the larvae are eating maturing milkweed in fall. Also.
Asclepias?
EARLYSTAGES , thank you very much for the document. Actually it was very interesting to know more about the mimicry strategies on nature. VERY useful !!!
Nice work!
Cool caterpillar.
Some populations of D. plexippus have remarkably dark caterpillars, such as in Puerto Rico (http://www.kingsnake.com/westindian/dana...), which may reflect Müllerian larval mimicry with other "protected" taxa (http://www.mnhn.fr/oseb/IMG/pdf/23Willmo...).
Nice picture!!!
I am not expert on butterflies and related ... but while Googling around I realized that in fact, many of them were clearer than this one ...
INBIO, Costa Rica´s biodiversity authority, reports D plexippus as a Local species, always related to Asclepsias plants.
http://darnis.inbio.ac.cr/ubisen/FMPro?-...
I will try to look for additional info on this ... Thank you for the comment !
I am a little bit confused about the dark color and color distribution from this Monarch. Could it be another one? However, the other Danainae looks also not so dark. What do you mean??