List of Monarch Resources
Tagging
and Conservation Projects
The
Chincoteague Monarch Monitoring Project: Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge,
Assateague, Virginia.
This
monitoring project serves the Mid-Atlantic Region.
Journey
North: Monarch Butterfly
Monarch
Butterflies: University of Minnesota
Monarch
Monitoring Project: Cape May Point, New Jersey
Monarch
Program (San Diego)
Monarch
Watch
Monarchs
and Migration from the Science Museum of Minnesota
Texas
Monarch Project
Texas
Monarch Watch
A
Sampling of Magazines, Newspapers and Quick Facts
National
Wildlife Federation
National
Geographic
NY Times
Backpacker
Magazine
Representative
Books
Biology
and conservation of the monarch butterfly.
Edited by Stephen B. Malcolm and Myron P. Zalucki. Los Angeles, Natural History
Museum of Los Angeles County, 1993.
419 p. (Its Science series, no. 38)
QL561.D3B56 1993
Grace,
Eric S. The world of the
monarch butterfly. San Francisco, Sierra
Club Books, c1997. 114 p. QL561.D3G73
1997
Halpern,
Sue. Four wings and a prayer:
caught in the mystery of the monarch butterflies. New York, Pantheon Books, c2001. 212 p. QL561.D3H35 2001
Monarch
butterfly biology & conservation.
Edited by Karen S. Oberhauser and Michelle J. Solensky. Ithaca, NY, Cornell
University Press, 2004. 248 p. QL561.D3M66
2004
Pyle,
Robert Michael. Chasing
monarchs: migrating with the butterflies of passage. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999. 307 p. QL561.D3P95
1999
Schappert,
Phillip Joseph. The last
monarch butterfly: conserving the monarch butterfly in a brave new world. Buffalo, NY, Firefly Books, c2004. 113 p. QL561.D3S23
2004
Urquhart,
Fred A. The monarch butterfly. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1960. 361p. QL561.N9U7
Urquhart,
Fred A. The monarch butterfly:
international traveler. Ellison Bay, WI,
Wm Caxton, c1998. 232 p. QL561.D3U78
1998
Butterfly Books for Kids!
Frost,
Helen, and Leonid Gore. Monarch
and milkweed. New York, Athenum Books
for Young Readers, c2008. 1 v. (unpaged). QL561.D3F75 2008
Harvey,
Diane Kelsay, and Bob Harvery. Melody’s
mystery = El misterio de MelodÃa.
Wilsonville, OR, Beautiful America Pub. Co., c1991. 1 v. (unpaged). QL561.D3H37 1991
Herberman,
Ethan. The great butterfly
hunt: the mystery of the migrating monarchs. New York, Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1990. 48 p.
QL561.D3H47 1990
Lasky,
Kathryn. Monarchs. San Diego, Harcourt Brace & Co., c1993. 63 p.
QL561.D3L36
1993
Pringle,
Laurence P. An extraordinary
life: the story of a monarch butterfly. New
York, Orchard Books, c1997. 64 p. QL561.D3P75
1997
Rosenblatt,
Lynn. Monarch magic! Butterfly
activities & nature discoveries.
Charlotte, VT, Williamson Pub., c1998. 96 p. QL561.D3R668
1998
Representative Journal Articles
Alonso-Mejia,
A., Brower, L.P. 1994. From model to mimic: age-dependent unpalatability in
monarch butterflies. Experientia 50: 176-181.
Alonso-Mejia, A.,
Montesinos-Patino, E., Rendon-Salinas, E., Brower, L.P., Oyama, K. 1998. Influence
of forest canopy closure on rates of bird predation on overwintering monarch
butterflies Danaus plexippus L.
Biological Conservation 85:
151-159.
Altizer, S.M., K.S. Oberhauser,
and K.A. Geurts. "“Transmission of the protozoan parasite Ophryocystis
elektroscirrha in monarch butterfly populations: Implications for prevalence
and population-level impacts." In The
Monarch Butterfly: Biology and Conservation, by K.S. Oberhauser and M.J.
Solensky, 203-218. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004.
Anderson, J.B., Brower, L.P.
1996. Freeze-protection of overwintering monarch butterflies in Mexico:
critical role of the forest as a blanket and an umbrella. Ecological Entomology
21: 107-116.
Anderson, P.L., R.L. Hellmich,
M.K. Sears, D.V. Sumerford, and L.C. Lewis. "Effects of cry1Ab-expressing
corn anthers on monarch butterfly larvae ." Envrionmental
Entomology, no. 33 (2004): 1109-1115.
Bradley,
KA, and SM Altizer. "Parasites hinder monarch butterfly flight:
implications for disease spread in migratory hosts." Ecology Letters, no. 8 (2005): 290-300.
Brower, L.P., Calvert, W.H.
1985. Foraging dynamics of bird predators on overwintering monarch butterflies
in Mexico. Evolution 39: 852-868.
Brower, L.P. "Chemical
defence in butterflies." In The
Biology of Butterflies, by R.I. Vane-Wright and P.R. Ackery, 109-134.
London: Academic Press, 1984.
Brower, L.P., Horner, B.E.,
Marty, M.A., Motfitt, C.M., Villa-R, B. 1985. Mice (Peromyscus maniculatus, P. spicilegus, and Microtus mecicanus)
as predators of overwintering monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) in Mexico. Biotropica 17: 89-99.
Brower, L.P.et al. "On the dangers of
interpopulational transfers of monarch butterflies." Bioscience 45, no. 8 (1995): 540-544.
Brower,
L.P. 1995. Understanding and misunderstanding the migration of the monarch
butterfly (Nymphalidae) in North America: 1857-1995. Journal of
Lepidopterist’s Society 49: 304-385.
Calvert,
W.H. 1994. Behavioral response of monarch butterflies (Nymphalidae) to disturbances in
their habitat – a group startle response? Journal of the Lepidopterists Society
48: 157-165.
Calvert, W.H., Brower, L.P.
1986. The location of monarch butterfly (Danaus
plexippus) overwintering colonies in Mexico in relation to topography
and climate. Journal of Lepidopterist’s Society 40: 164-187.
Commission for Environmental
Cooperation. North American Monarch Conservation
Plan. Montreal: Commission for Environmental Cooperation, 2008.
Desneux,
Nicolas, Axel Decourtye, and Jean-Marie Delpuech. "The Sublethal Effects
of Pesticides on Beneficial Arthropods." Annual Review of Entemology 52 (2006): 81-106.
Edgar,
J.A., Cockrum, P.A., Frahn, J.L. 1976. Pyrrolizidine alkaloids in Danaus plexippus and Danaus
chrysippus. Experientia 32: 1535-1537.
Fink, L.S., Brower, L.P. 1981.
Birds can overcome the cardenolide defense of monarch butterflies in Mexico.
Nature 291: 67-70.
Hanna, Bill. "Monarch
Butterflies Suffer Population Loss." The
Los Angeles Times, March 10, 2010.
Hilbig,
B., V. Pocius, J. Marchese, N.M. Waters, and J. Drummond. "Effects of
endocrine disrupting contaminants on the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus. ."
The Proceedings of the National
Conference for Undergraduate Research.
2010.
Kelley,
R.B., Seiber, J.N., Jones, A.D., Segall, A.D., Brower, L.P. 1987. Pyrrolizidine
alkaloids in overwintering monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) from
Mexico. Experientia 43: 943-946.
Malcolm, S.B., Brower, L.P.
1989. Evolutionary and ecological implications of cardenolide sequestration
in the monarch butterfly. Experientia 45: 284-295.
Malcolm, S.B., R.A. Martin, S.P.
Lynch, L.P. Brower, and T. Van Hook. "Cardenolide content, emetic potency,
and thin-layer chromatography profiles of monarch butterflies, Danaus
plexippus, and thier larvalhost-plant milkweed, Asclepias humistrata, in
FLorida." Chemoecology 3
(1992): 1-13.
Malcom, S.B. "Milkweeds,
monarch butterflies, and the ecological significance of cardenolides." Chemoecology, no. 5 (1994): 101-117.
Oberhauser, K.S., and D. Frey.
"Coercive mating by overwintering male Monarch butterflies." In The 1997 North American conference on the
Monarch butterfly, by J., Merino, L., Oberhauser, K., Pisantry,I.,
Price, S. & Wilkinson, T. Hoth. Montreal: Commission forEnvironmental
Cooperation, 1997.
Tuskes,
P.M., Brower, L.P. 1978. Overwintering ecology of the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus L., in California. Ecological Entomology 3: 141-153.
Urquhart, F.A., Urquhart, N.R.
1976. The overwintering site of the eastern population of the monarch butterfly
(Danaus P. plexippus; Danaidae)
in southern Mexico. Journal of the
Lepidopterists’ Society. 30: 153-158.
Yeargan, Kenneth V., and Cora M.
Allard. "Comparison of Common Milkweed and Honeyvine Milkweed
(Asclepiadaceae) as Host Plants for Monarch Larvae (Lepidoptera:
Nymphalidae)." Journal of the
Kansas Entomological Society 78, no. 3 (2005): 247-251.
Zalucki,
M.P. "The effects of age and weather on egg laying in Danaus plexippus(L.)
(Lepidoptera: Danaidae." no. 23 (1982): 318-327.