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Challenge Question #5: Milkweed and Winter Survival
This picture was taken in the late summer. The monarch caterpillar was eating milkweed. It was preparing to spend the winter in Mexico.

Challenge Question #5:

  • There are two important ways that eating milkweed in the summer (before fall migration) helps a monarch survive the winter in Mexico. What are they? Explain how milkweed and winter survival are related.

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