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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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