Monarchs and milkweed: a migrating butterfly, a poisonous plant, and their remarkable story of coevolution

By:

Agrawal , Anurag

Publication details: Princeton University Press, 2017. Princeton:Description: ix, 283p.; hbk; 24cmISBN:

9780691166353

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DDC classification:

595.789 AGR

Summary: Monarch butterflies are one of nature’s most recognizable creatures, known for their bright colors and epic annual migration from the United States and Canada to Mexico. Yet there is much more to the monarch than its distinctive presence and mythic journeying. In Monarchs and Milkweed, Anurag Agrawal presents a vivid investigation into how the monarch butterfly has evolved closely alongside the milkweed—a toxic plant named for the sticky white substance emitted when its leaves are damaged—and how this inextricable and intimate relationship has been like an arms race over the millennia, a battle of exploitation and defense between two fascinating species. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691166353/monarchs-and-milkweed

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Includes notes, images and index

Monarch butterflies are one of nature’s most recognizable creatures, known for their bright colors and epic annual migration from the United States and Canada to Mexico. Yet there is much more to the monarch than its distinctive presence and mythic journeying. In Monarchs and Milkweed, Anurag Agrawal presents a vivid investigation into how the monarch butterfly has evolved closely alongside the milkweed—a toxic plant named for the sticky white substance emitted when its leaves are damaged—and how this inextricable and intimate relationship has been like an arms race over the millennia, a battle of exploitation and defense between two fascinating species.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691166353/monarchs-and-milkweed

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