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unusual facts about Danaus



Aammiq Wetland

A Rocha personnel recorded several new records of species since 1998 such as: Oriental marbled skipper (Carcharodus boeticus), Swallowtail (Papilio machaon), Scarce swallowtail (Iphiclides podalirius), False Apollo (Archon apollinus), Large White (Pieris brassicae), Plain tiger (Danaus chrysippus), Long-tailed Blue (Lampides boeticus).

Agenor

According to Pherecydes, Agenor's first wife was Damno, daughter of Belus, who bore him Phoenix and two otherwise unknown daughters, Isaia and Melia, who married Aegyptus and Danaus respectively; Agenor then fathered Cadmus with Argiope, daughter of Neilus.

Catalina Trail

She is noted for discovering, with her then-husband Kenneth C. Brugger, the location of the overwintering sites of the Monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus L.

Fountain of the Great Lakes

Danaus ordered his 49 daughters to kill their husbands and condemned them to delivering water to a bottomless vessel in Hades.


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