Monarch Watch
The name or website of the organization that tracks the migration of the Monarch Butterfly.
What is Monarch Watch / Monarchwatch.org?
The caterpillar of this organism eats the leaves of the milkweed.
What is a Monarch Butterfly?
The organisms that obtain energy from the Sun in an ecosystem.
What are producers?
This milkweed species is also known as orange milkweed.
What is a Butterfly Milkweed?
The Monarch life stage that chews a hole in the milkweed leaf to drain the sap.
What is the larva / caterpillar stage?
The difference between a male and female Monarch Butterfly?
What is the pheremone pouches on a male and/or thicker veins on a female?
This organism lays its eggs on the seed pods of a milkweed.
What is a milkweed bug?
The organisms in an ecosystem that obtain energy by eating other organims.
What are consumers?
This milkweed has broad leaves with a large cluster of flowers. Its seed pod is also very large.
What is a Common Milkweed?
The name of the lifecycle stage for aphids and milkweed bugs that occurs after the eggs hatch.
What is the nymph stage?
The reason Monarch Butterflies and other milkweed eating insects have brightly colored bodies.
What is to warn predators that their bodies are poisonous?
This organism feasts on the roots of the milkweed during its larval stage.
What is a milkweed beetle?
The path of energy through an ecosystem which is represented by arrows connecting one organism to another.
What is a food chain or food web?
This milkweed has thin leaves and a small cluster of pink flowers.
What is Swamp Milkweed?
The special name for a Monarch cocoon / or pupa life cycle stage.
What is a chrysalis?
The reason the Boone County Nature School is trying to help the Monarch Butterlies.
What is Monarchs are consideed endangered due to their low population numbers?
(endangered is the key to the answer)
The species of milkweed insect that specifically eats the milkweed sap.
What is the Milkweed Aphid?
The ecosystem in missouri that contains the most milkweed and wildflowers.
What is a prairie?
The maximum height of the tallest species of milkweed.
What is 6 feet (Swamp Milkweed)?
This is the insect that does not need to mate but rather creates clones of herself in order to reproduce.
What is an aphid?
This stage which contains a golden ban is the namesake for the Monarch butterfly.
What is the chrysalis stage?
The number of days needed for a Monarch egg to hatch, become a caterpillar, chyrsalis, and finally adult butterfy.
What is 22-37 days depending on the temperature?
The definition of an ecosystem.
What is the interaction between living and non living components in a specific area.
(Definition needs to include the interaction of living and non living in an area.)
This part of the milkweed is what contains the toxin Monarchs use as a chemical defense against predators.
What is the milkweed sap?
The number of stages in a lifecycle almost all milkweed eating insects have.
What is four stages (egg, larva, pupa, adult)?