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To be clear, most of the large, orange-and-black butterflies known as Danaus plexippus are doing just fine.
From National Geographic • Oct. 4, 2023
Danaus plexippus is also native throughout the rest of the Americas, with stable populations found in Florida, through the entirety of Central America and the Caribbean, and as far south as Venezuela.
From Slate • Oct. 11, 2022
Fish and Wildlife Service to list the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus plexippus, as a threatened species to give it more habitat protection.
From Scientific American • Mar. 2, 2020
The fall journey takes the monarch, Danaus plexippus, thousands of kilometers south to the mountains of Mexico for the winter.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 1, 2014
By drinking oftener, thou shalt be neuer awhit the more satisfyed: for the body thou cariest, like the bored paile of Danaus daughters, will neuer be full.
From A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier by Herbert, Mary Sidney
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