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Weekly Puzzler #227: Male or Female Monarch Butterfly

 

So last week we were talking about the Viceroy Butterfly–a beautiful orange and black butterfly that always has to play second fiddle to the more famous Monarch. Let’s look more closely at the Monarch.

Check out the photo below. Can you tell if it’s a male or female Monarch? How do you know? Or it is impossible to determine?

A Monarch on Ironweed.

So can you tell the sex of this butterfly? Is so, how? That’s this week’s puzzler! Check back next weekend to see if you are correct. Here’s the answer to this puzzler, #227.

4 thoughts on “Weekly Puzzler #227: Male or Female Monarch Butterfly

    1. Sharon Mammoser says:

      It’s always fun to guess, right? And you have a 50-50 chance… but no, it’s a male.

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