Butterfly Effect On Monarchs

Monarchs do not have many predators expect for man. The monarch's trick to not being eating it two hold. First, the coloring of the monarch mimics that of a wasp or a bee which makes predators think twice before trying to eat them. Second, the milkweed plant in which the caterpillar eats has toxins which make the wings of the butterfly distasteful to predators. The monarch butterfly drinks nectar while the caterpillar eats the milkweed. The monarch favorite food here in Florida is Asclepias ssp. or milkweed (Wexler, 1994).

     The monarch butterfly, as known as Danaus plexippus, is often called the milkweed butterfly because its larvae eat the milkweed plant. They are also sometimes called "royalty butterflies" because their family name comes from the daughter of Danaus, ruler of Argos. There are many other interesting facts about this butterfly including its anatomy and life cycle, where the butterfly lies on the food chain, the migration from Canada to Mexico, why the butterfly is being threatened, and lastly, what is being done to help the butterfly.

Throughout history women have always been minimized from social, sexual , and political aspects juxtaposed to men. Just like in the novel  In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez, the author uses the Mirabal sisters to demonstrate the inequalities set in the Dominican Republic. The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo causes the Mirabal sisters to come together and overthrow Trujillo’s regime.Trujillo. Rafael Trujillo was despised by many yet many were forced to worship him like some type of paragon. As the novel progresses, illustrations of male dominance often appear throughout each chapter. The Mirabal sisters: Minerva, Patria, Maria Teresa and Dede each demonstrate the ability to overcome stigmas in order to obtain freedom.

The Monarch Butterfly is a milkweed butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It’s the most common butterfly in North America , and is considered an “iconic pollinator species”.(Conserving Monarch butterflies And their habitats).The Monarch Butterflies have many nicknames such as, “milkweed, common tiger, wanderer and black veined brown”(Danaus).

Monarch butterflies transform via a crystallis state, which is similar to what the project experiments were trying to do with test subjects. Testing on human beings involved indoctrination and use of ritual abuse to create triggers in subjects, these could then be revived at a later time. The result being an unconscious reaction could be triggered days, weeks, or years later. The subject would then awaken from a sleeper state, and become transformed into various personality fractures. MONARCH subjects were intended for use in black ops and secret government activities. Tests revealed different people trained better for some types of black ops, these people were divided into types based on their skillset. The types were assassins, sexual predators, and remote viewing psychics. Some test subjects were found unsuitable for MONARCH programming, since they were unable to put them into sleeper states with any characteristic methods. Much of the work done in MONARCH programming was intended on being useful by the year 2012, at the turn of the Maya calendar ending, somehow related to the galactic alignments on planet Earth during that coming time

Before reading All Quiet on the Western Front, I had never looked into the German side of World War I. Before reading In the Time of the Butterflies I had never even heard the name Trujillo. Both of these books changed my perspective on these historical events. Being raised in America, I was taught (in regards to WWI) that the Germans were the “bad guys” and therefore I never stopped to think that their soldiers were just as young and afraid as those fighting for the Allies. I had also thought that revolutions were always organized by one group, while there are often many groups fighting for power.

“In the Time of the Butterflies” takes place in the Dominican Republic in the 1960s. The author, Julia Alvarez is a native of the country, but moved to the US at a young age. She first heard about the sisters roughly around 1986 and instantly felt the need to share their story with the world. In the book, Alvarez tells the story of the Mirabal sisters and their fight for freedom against the Dominican dictator Trujillo. Rafael Trujillo reigned for about 30 years until his assassination in May of 1961. Trujillo’s reign of terror began in 1930 and the violence soon followed. The self centered dictator changed the names of cities and murdered roughly about 20,000 Haitians from the neighboring country. The book not only tells the sisters’

Monarch butterflies depend solely on the milkweed plant to survive. Milkweed, however, has been disappearing like crazy due especially to increased use of the weed killer Roundup over the past ten to twenty years. That, combined with more general trends of habitat loss, various effects of climate change, and challenges like the drought in California, has spelled out around a ninety percent population decline for monarchs in the past twenty years. Scientists currently estimate a global population of around 33 million monarch butterflies, down from over one billion in the past.

The Butterfly Life Cycle by Torran Anderson is a leveled text, because Farrah is reading at level H, we were able to adapt the original in order to suit her skill levels. The book is separated by the stages of the life cycle and includes a table of contents making each stage highly accessible to the students. In addition to the table of contents, the beginning of the book also includes the focus question: what is the life cycle of a monarch butterfly? This focus questions allows for these readers to focus their attention and read the story having an idea of how their thought process should be conducted. What we found to be the most vital resource within this text was the introduction to the vocabulary words at the beginning of the text, which

Species info: Monarch Butterflies are the most commonly known butterfly in the world. It is easily recognized by its black and orange wings. The colors warn predators about the raw and terrible taste they have. (www.defenders.org/monarch-butterfly/basic-facts.)

The eastern flutters of monarch butterflies are thought to be in danger, thanks to natural disasters in Mexico and there not being enough milkweed in their summer nesting grounds(National Geographic). Global warming and loss of habitat also effect the migratory patterns and the rainfall(National Wildlife Federation).  “In 1996, the Mexican government created the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve to protect monarch’s wintering habitat(US Fish and Wildlife

The circadian clock in monarch not only determine when an adult butterfly will emerge from its chrysalis, but it is also involved in the time-compensated sun compass. Previous studies have shown that circadian clock provides the internal timing deceive that allows the butterfly to correct their fight orientation. If the circadian clock in the monarch is destroyed, it destroys the migrant’s ability to calibrate their orientation based on time of day. The circadian clock mechanism is known in the butterfly, it relies on a negative transcriptional feedback loop that involves the transcription factors CLOCK (CLK) and CYCLE (CYC), which drive the expression of period(per), timeless (tim) and a vertebrate-like cryptochrome, designated cry2. The translated

It starts as an egg, which becomes a caterpillar or a larva. It takes the larva four days to transform into a chrysalis or a pupa. They eat their egg case before they start eating tender milkweed. The caterpillar eats for two weeks and becomes 2,000 times the size they were at birth. Then it dissolves into a bag of rich fluid in the next two weeks. After that it turns into an Adult butterfly and it starts to fly in a few hours. Their habitats make it difficult for this delicate transformation to successfully

The Monarch butterfly is the most familiar butterfly in North America. Its wings feature an easily recognizable black, orange, and white pattern, with a wingspan of 8.9–10.2 cm (3½–4 in). The Viceroy butterfly is similar in color and pattern, but is markedly smaller and has an extra black stripe across each hind wing. These butterflies can be throughout the United States and also in Canada and Mexico. These butterflies can produce up to 4

The monarch butterfly annual migration is a visually spectacular feat, in terms of the number of butterflies flying to their overwintering sites and as well as the masses that congregates at the overwintering sites in Mexico. The idea that monarch butterflies exhibited migratory behavior was once controversial, it was not until Fred Urquhart and his colleagues pioneered a tagging work with the eastern North American population for decades that revealed the long distance of the monarch migration. The tagging efforts that began in 1937 lead to the discovery of their overwintering sites in Mexico in 1975. With its long distance traveled and the nature of the predictable and the repetitive nature of its annual migration. The