Mice (Peromyscus maniculatus, P. spicilegus, and Microtus mexicanus) as Predators of Overwintering Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus) in Mexico
- 1 June 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Biotropica
- Vol. 17 (2) , 89-99
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2388500
Abstract
The discovery of accumulations of monarch butterfly wings on the forest floor beneath a 2.25 hectare aggregation of overwintering monarch butterflies in the Sie...This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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