Monarch butterfly: Built to Survive

Question 1 · multiple choice

A camera trap is being set for a Monarch butterfly. Which habitat description gives it the best chance of success?

meadows, roadsides, gardens, and migration stopovers with flowers desert, scrub, grassland, and rocky country rocky North Pacific reefs, caves, and seafloor dens tropical forest, woodland, and forest-savanna mosaics

Question 2 · multiple choice

A Monarch butterfly follows its usual feeding pattern. Which food combination should it seek?

algae, tiny crustaceans, molluscs, and aquatic larvae milkweed as caterpillars and flower nectar as adults deer, pigs, smaller dragons, carrion, and other animals plankton, fish eggs, and small schooling fish filtered from water

Question 3 · multiple choice

When should a documentary crew expect the most natural activity from a Monarch butterfly?

active by day close to its anemone often moves and spawns with tides, especially at night active by day in suitable warmth activity follows the presence of liquid water

Question 4 · multiple choice

Which set of movements belongs to a Monarch butterfly?

swims in short bursts and rarely travels far from shelter walks on jointed legs and swims upside down when young walks slowly on eight stubby legs with claws flies with slow powerful wingbeats and migrates across generations

Question 5 · multiple choice

Which body feature gives a Monarch butterfly a practical survival advantage?

milkweed toxins stored from the caterpillar diet make adults distasteful tube feet grip surfaces and pull open a small gap in shellfish different silk types form strong frames and sticky capture spirals black skin and dense water-repellent fur help absorb and retain heat

Question 6 · multiple choice

Which family-life detail is accurate for a Monarch butterfly?

a mother raises one young through an exceptionally long childhood eggs are laid one at a time on milkweed leaves one fertilised egg usually divides into four genetically identical young the female seals herself inside a tree cavity while the male delivers food

Question 7 · multiple choice

Which social clue belongs to a Monarch butterfly?

mostly solitary outside breeding gatherings males display with raised fins and jumps around defended burrows mostly solitary but gathers in huge overwintering clusters stable family units often travel within larger temporary herds

Question 8 · multiple choice

Which food-web connection correctly involves a Monarch butterfly?

stirs wetland sediment and links microscopic food to larger predators acts as a top predator and scavenger on its islands concentrates plankton into a food source for scavengers through waste pollinates flowers and feeds many predators despite chemical defence

Question 9 · multiple choice

A Monarch butterfly cannot simply disappear. Which combination helps it avoid or survive danger?

orange-black warning colours advertise stored toxins rattles as a warning before using venomous fangs camouflages, releases ink, jets away, or sacrifices an arm forms alliances, gives alarm calls, and may mob a threat

Question 10 · true false

True or False: A monarch butterfly no single butterfly completes the entire multigenerational northward and southward migration cycle.

True False