It’s the first bites that count: Survival of first‐instar monarchs on milkweeds

By Myron Zalucki, S. Malcolm, T. Paine, C. C. Hanlon, L. Brower, A. Clarke. 2001

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Latex: A Model for Understanding Mechanisms, Ecology, and Evolution of Plant Defense Against Herbivory (2009, background): “Given points 1 and 2 above, latex can be seen as primarily effective against tiny mandibulate insects (e.g., mortality of specialist caterpillars feeding on milkweeds are the highest in the earlier instars and especially high at the first bites after hatching (Zalucki et al. 2001a,b).”
Specificity of induced plant responses to specialist herbivores of the common milkweed Asclepias syriaca (2004, background): “Specificity of induced plant responses to specialist herbivores of the common milkweed Asclepias syriaca”
Learning about aposematic prey (2016, background): “(e.g., Pasteels et al. 1983; Cohen 1985; Rowell-Rahier and Pasteels 1986; Bowers 1992; Dobler and Rowell-Rahier 1994; Zalucki et al. 2001), it continues to be a key factor underpinning our current understanding of the evolution of prey defenses.”
Plant defence theory re‐examined: nonlinear expectations based on the costs and benefits of resource mutualisms (2011, background): “Cardenolides, toxic, bitter-tasting steroids, can decrease the survival and performance of the specialist herbivoreDanaus plexippus (Zalucki et al. 2001).”