Detrimental effects of latex and cardiac glycosides on survival and growth of first‐instar monarch butterfly larvae Danaus plexippus feeding on the sandhill milkweed Asclepias humistrata

By Myron Zalucki, L. Brower, Alfonso Alonso-M. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science

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Plant defense syndromes. (2006, background): “Key words: Asclepias; cardenolides; chemical ecology; cluster analysis; coevolution; Danaus plexippus; herbivory; latex; milkweed; monarch butterfly; phylogenetically independent contrasts; phytochemistry; plant–insect interactions.”
It’s the first bites that count: Survival of first‐instar monarchs on milkweeds (2001, methodology): “We used monarch eggs (synchronized to hatch simultaneously) on leaf discs, which were glued to experimental plants (see Zalucki et al. 2001) or occasionally newly hatched larvae (see subsequent discussion).”
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”
Compensatory Feeding in Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Response to Variation in Host Plant Quality (2004, background): “Increased feeding will also result in increased contact with milkweed latex and cardenolides, which could cause reduced performance (Malcolm and Zalucki 1996, Zalucki and Malcolm 1999, Zalucki et al. 2001).”
Natural selection on common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) by a community of specialized insect herbivores (2005, background): “…the milkweed herbivores has a behavioural mechanism to deactivate the latex exudation, this remains a dangerous activity, frequently taking tens of minutes and often resulting in mortality (Dussourd and Eisner, 1987; Malcolm, 1991; Dussourd, 1999; Zalucki et al. , 2001; Agrawal and Malcolm, 2002) .”