Minnesota Seasons


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Danaus plexippus

Order	Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily	Papilionoidea (Butterflies [excluding skippers])
Family	Nymphalidae (Brush-footed Butterflies)
Subfamily	Danainae (monarchs)
Status
Flight	Mid-May to late October
Habitat	Fields, meadows, weedy areas, marshes, and roadsides.
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Identification

Larval Hosts	Milkweeds

Adult Food	Milkweeds, dogbane, lilac, red clover, thistles, goldenrods, blazing stars, ironweed, and bidens.

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Range

Sightings	Afton State Park Agassiz Dunes SNA Blanket Flower Prairie SNA Blue Mounds State Park Bonanza Prairie SNA Boot Lake Scientific and Natural Area Bunker Hills Regional Park Cannon Wilderness Woods Carver Park Reserve Cedar Mountain SNA Chippewa Prairie Clinton Prairie SNA Cottonwood River Prairie SNA Crow Wing State Park Crow-Hassan Park Reserve Elm Creek Park Reserve Felton Prairie SNA Shrike Unit Flandrau State Park Glynn Prairie SNA Grey Cloud Dunes SNA Hastings Sand Coulee SNA Hayes Lake State Park Hole-in-the-Mountain Prairie Joseph A. Tauer Prairie SNA Kasota Prairie SNA Kellogg-Weaver Dunes SNA Kellogg-Weaver Unit Lake Elmo Park Reserve Lake Rebecca Park Reserve Lebanon Hills Regional Park Lost Valley Prairie SNA Louisville Swamp Lundblad Prairie SNA	Mille Lacs Kathio State Park Minneopa State Park Mound Spring Prairie SNA Murphy-Hanrehan Park Reserve Myre-Big Island State Park Old Mill State Park Ordway Prairie Oronoco Prairie SNA Osmundson Prairie SNA Ottawa Bluffs Ottertail Prairie SNA Philip J. Englund Ecotone Pine Bend Bluffs SNA Racine Prairie SNA Red Rock Prairie Regal Meadow Rice Lake Savanna SNA River Terrace Prairie SNA Rock Ridge Prairie SNA Roscoe Prairie SNA St. Croix Savanna SNA Santee Prairie SNA Schaefer Prairie Sedan Brook Prairie SNA Shooting Star Prairie SNA Strandness Prairie Two Rivers Aspen Prairie Parkland SNA Uncas Dunes SNA Wahpeton Prairie WMA Western Prairie SNA Wild Indigo Prairie SNA Zimmerman Prairie

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