Home / Pollinator Garden / Monarchs Monarchs So you want to learn more about monarchs! GREAT! Here are some awesome articles we found: New York Times: Monarchs may be loved to death! Discover: Gardeners Good Intentions Killing Monarch Butterflies UGA Today: Canceled flights: For monarch butterflies, loss of migration means more disease Planting the Wrong Kind of Milkweed May Harm Monarch Butterflies MonarchParasites.org (learn more about OE) Journal of Animal Ecology: Host plant species affects virulence in monarch butterfly parasites (PDF) MonarchJointVenture.org Journal of Parasitology: Virulence determinants in a natural butterfly-parasite system (PDF) Virulence-transmission trade-offs and population divergence in virulence in a naturally occurring butterfly parasite The Royal Society: Loss of migratory behaviour increases infection risk for a butterfly host Ecology Letters: Parasites hinder monarch butterfly flight: implications for disease spread in migratory hosts (PDF)
