Monarch Butterfly<\/a>.\u00a0 What is it you ask?\u00a0 Well they will lay their eggs on a toxic pipevine plant.\u00a0 The caterpillars will of course feed on the plant and voila – we have a toxic butterfly.\u00a0 Predators everywhere should be warned that these are not tasty creatures.<\/p>\nThanks for stopping by Wild Facts.\u00a0 Now get outside and enjoy some real wildlife!\u00a0 See you tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Happy Friday Everyone!\u00a0 Okay, so maybe it is a fake Friday for all of us that work a standard 9-5 job but that doesn’t change the fact that the weekend is almost here.\u00a0 To celebrate Fake Friday, we are going to look at an insect!\u00a0 Yay! Don’t worry, it is a pretty insect that is actually pretty cool.\u00a0 Today we are going to look at the largest butterfly on our planet.\u00a0 This distinguished honour goes to the Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing. Obviously, this butterfly was named after Queen Alexandra who was the wife of Edward VII.\u00a0 How about that – a <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,4024],"tags":[348,1833,127,922,1832,4025,1831],"yoast_head":"\n
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