Insecta · Lepidoptera
Monarch Butterfly
Danaus plexippus
Caterpillars sequester toxic cardenolides (cardiac glycosides) from their host plants, rendering both larvae and bright orange adults unpalatable to birds.
- Realm
- Terrestrial
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and versionA sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1361 licence-filtered records across 305 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
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