MONARCHS eat milkweed. Eating the milkweed makes the monarch caterpillar and butterfly toxic to predators (a predator is an animal that eats another animal). This means monarchs are poisonous to eat. The bright colors on a monarch warn predators to stay away. The monarch’s bright colors and patterns keep them safe!

THE LOOK-A-LIKE
A viceroy (say it: vice-roy) is another type of butterfly. A viceroy butterfly looks almost exactly like a monarch butterfly. Because viceroys look so much like monarchs, predators leave them alone too.