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Viceroy

The viceroy butterfly is a North American butterfly that mimics the monarch butterfly as a defense against predators. It produces toxins from eating Carolina willow leaves that make it unpalatable like the monarch. The viceroy lives across most of North America in wet areas with willow, poplar, and aspen trees. It has a 1-year lifespan, with 8-10 months as a caterpillar and the rest as a mating adult laying eggs.

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Viceroy

The viceroy butterfly is a North American butterfly that mimics the monarch butterfly as a defense against predators. It produces toxins from eating Carolina willow leaves that make it unpalatable like the monarch. The viceroy lives across most of North America in wet areas with willow, poplar, and aspen trees. It has a 1-year lifespan, with 8-10 months as a caterpillar and the rest as a mating adult laying eggs.

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Insect

Viceroy
Average Measurments
● Length: 27-39 in

Classification
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Anthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Leminitus
Species: archippus

In The News
To protect themselves from predators,
Viceroys mimic the Monarch butterfly. The
only difference is that they produce these
aspirin-like toxins when needed. The reason
why these toxins are produced is because of
the plant they eat, the Carolina Willow.
General Knowledge https://nhpbs.org/natureworks/viceroy.htm#:

● Caterpillar eats the Carolina Willow ~:text=The%20viceroy%20butterfly%20is


leaves
● Butterfly eats dung, carrion, fungi, nectar %20a,white%20spots%20edge%20its
of the flowers from the Asteracaea
family (golden rod, thistles, and asters) %20wings.
● Lives in most of North America
● Lives in meadows, marshes, swamps, and ‌ alla-Arizona, E. (2019, February 25).
W
other wet areas with willow, poplar, and Sweet butterfly turns sour to avoid getting
aspen trees eaten - Futurity. Retrieved January 13, 2021,
● Life span is 1 year and three generations from Futurity website:
can be born in one season https://www.futurity.org/viceroy-butterflies-
● 8-10 of those months is spent as a mimicry-1991342-2/
caterpillar, 10 days is spent in chrysalis,
V
‌ iceroy Butterfly | Deceiving the Birdseye.
and the rest is mating and laying eggs
(2015, November 25). Retrieved January 13,
● Numbers are stable but scientists do rely 2021, from Aboutanimals.com website:
on tagging to count the population https://www.aboutanimals.com/insect/vicero
y-butterfly/#Reproduction%20and%20Life
%20Cycle

Sources ‌
Viceroy Butterfly - Limenitis archippus -

NatureWorks. (2021). Retrieved January 12,

2021, from Nhpbs.org website:

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