MONARCH BUTTERFLIES THE LIFE OF A MONARCH BUTTERFLY
APPEARANCE The Monarch Butterfly is about four inches wide, the colors are orange, white, and black. It has wings so it can fly, and it has no teeth, but it eats through a tube, similar to a straw.
DIET The Monarch Butterfly does not have a wide variety of a diet. It eats a lot of milkweed, it sucks the juice out of some fruits, and it is not uncommon to see them on flowers, and eating the nectar on them.
MILKWEED
LIFE SPAN The Monarch Butterfly has a very short life span. Depending on if it lives in the Winter or the Summer, the average Monarch lives about from the span of 2-6 weeks.
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