Datasets describing monarch immature and adult performance when reared on milkweed host-plants varying in pesticides

10.4231/K9FH-7053

Ian Kaplan, Kayleigh Hauri, Michael E. Scharf Paola Olaya-Arenas

08/18/2020

The long-term decline of monarch butterflies has been attributed to loss of their milkweed (Asclepias sp.) host-plants after the introduction of herbicide-tolerant crops. However, recent studies report pesticide residues on milkweed leaves that could act a...

Agriculture Entomology milkweed monarchs pesticides