Texas State Insect - Monarch Butterfly

Texas designated the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) as the official state insect in 1995. Both the caterpillar and adult monarch butterfly are brilliant in color as a warning to predators (the monarch ingests toxins from the milkweed plant which are poisonous). monarch caterpillar © photographer Lynn M. Rosenblatt, author of MONARCH MAGIC, Ideals Publications: Monarch Butterfly USA (used by permission)

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Links:	Monarch Butterfly USA Monarch Lifecycle: Wild Ones Animal Index Wildlife Migration: Annenberg CPB Monarch Watch: U of Kansas Entomology Butterfly Conservation: The Butterfly Site The Monarch Butterfly Website Texas Threatened and Endangered Invertebrates: TPWD State Insects - 50 States List

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