Monarch Butterflies Use Medicinal Plants To Treat Offspring For Disease

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Monarch Butterflies Use Medicinal Plants to Treat Offspring for Disease

 

 

Monarch butterfly egg on a milkweed plant leaf.

 

 

ScienceDaily (Oct. 12, 2010) — Monarch butterflies appear to use medicinal plants to treat their offspring for disease, research by biologists at Emory University shows. Their findings were published online Oct. 6 in the journal Ecology Letters.

 

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101011090010.htm