Texas State Insect - Monarch Butterfly

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Texas State Insect:

Monarch butterfly on milkweed © photographer Lynn M. Rosenblatt,
author of MONARCH MAGIC, Ideals Publications:
Monarch Butterfly USA (used by permission)

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)


Source:
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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